FEARED CALAMITY
WORLD SITUATION.
KILLED IN AIR CRASH.
OXFORD DON AND WIFE.
(Special.—By Air Mail.) LONDON, September 15. Prebendary Streeter, Provost of Queen's College, Oxford, who with his wife was killed in a Swis-s air crash, despaired of the world situation.
The last letter received by Dr. F. W. D. Buchman, of the Oxford Group, from Prebendary Streeter revealed his fear of a major calamity.
"Unlike most of those who come into the Oxford Group," he wrote, "I was drawn to it not primarily by failure to meet personal or family problems— though I pot much help regarding euch problems—but by despair of the world situation.
"I was one of those who expected much from the League and from the various projects started since the war for dealing with economic conflict and social reform.
"These things are failing humanity not from any imperfection in the machinery, but from the lack of sufficient goodwill."
Canon Streeter, who was 03, and his wife were the only passenger* in the air liner, a Swiss machine, which crashed in dense fog near Waldenburg, near Bask , .
The pilot was killed and the wireless operator injured.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 236, 5 October 1937, Page 8
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