WHAT EXCUSE FOR WAR ?
EVEN iIN SELF-DEFENCE
CHURCHMAN POINTS TO THE
LEAGUE
LONDON, August 22.
Dr. A. Hinsley, Archbishop of Westminster, in reply to the "Truce of God" appeal, in a letter to "The Times," asks: "What excuse can there be for even a war in self-defence when machinery to secure justice and peace, suggested by Pope Benedict XV, is embodied in the" League of Nations and when a World Court is established and capable of functioning?"
He recalls that Pope Pius XI in 1933 emphatically. summoned the world to true peace. He had condemned time and again the race in armaments and still continued working, striving, and praying for peace. . Dr. Hinsley concludes that he himself is ordering a prayer for peace to be said at every mass in the archdiocese of Westminster till further notice.
Mr. Lansbury, in a letter to "The Times," urged the Archbishop of Canterbury to take the lead in an appeal to the Pope to convoke a congress o£ every phase of Christian thought at Jerusalem to call a "truce of God" from the Mount of Calvary. • '
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Evening Post, Issue 47, 23 August 1935, Page 9
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