ALLOW FOOD TO ENTER GERMANY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 15, 18 January 1940, Page 8

ALLOW FOOD TO ENTER GERMANY.

BISHOP'S PI£A. Statement At Convocation Of Canterbury. MOTION LATER WITHDRAWN. Inlted Tress A sine la I lon.—Copyright. (Herri vni in.3o a.m.) LONDON, January 17. The Bishop of Birmingham, the Rt. Rev. h. W. Hamcs, speaking at the Convocation of Canterbury, urged that a petition he forwarded to the Government asking it to allow the free importation of foodstuffs to Germany in accordance with the precept that if your enemy hungers, feed hiin. I lie Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Cosmo (Gordon Lang, replied that if Oernwiny tried to starve us we were entitled to reply the same way. Bishop Ha rues later withdrew his motion, saying the House was divided on practicalities, and not on moral fundamentals.

Tins Bishop of Chichester, the Rt. Rev. 0. K. A. Bell, said hundreds of thousands of Pastor Nicinoller'a followers, and Catholics, were rallying to Hitler's flap: in the belief th«°t the Allies were determined to destroy and dismember Germany. Britain's soldiers should be told what; kind of Europe they are fighting to establish. The Upper House of Convocation passed a resolution trusting that the 1 statesmen of neutral ana belligerent countries would eagerly watch for a'n opportunity to negotiate • just and durable peace.