LET GUILTY PAY

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 307, 29 December 1942, Page 4

LET GUILTY PAY

BUT METE JUSTICE

PRIMATE'S URGE TO NATIONS

LONDON, Due, perhaps, to his controversial views, more than 1500 people crowded into the modern and beautiful church of St. Jude's, Hampstead Garden Suburb, to hear the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Temple, preach on the post-war treatment of Germany.

They, and representatives of nearly all the Allied Governments heard him say that individuals "proved guilty of proved atrocities" should be arraigned before impartial judges and given an opportunity of defending *hemselves.

since the Germans have thrust the nations into war three times in a comparatively short period it must be made clear to them, said the Primate, that such conduct is intolerable and must be prevented. "But," he said, "there is need to express justice as between nations, and here a special difficulty confronts us, because so far as any settlement is penal, it loses its quality of justice as the years pass. Short ami Long-Term Treatments "It is not possible to treat a nation through the many generations of its life as a single moral agent, and a generation which grows up under restrictions imposed for what were the acts of its predecessors is sure to be embittered and has a just grievance on its side."

The Primate said, therefore, so far as the expression of justice is concerned there is need for a short-term and a long-term treatment."

"There ought," he said, "to be such expression of the moral condemnation of recent German nolicv as cannot fail to bring home to the German people what is the moral of the world concerning

t , °" the other hand, there must in thift ng term Policy be provision that the coming generations shall be ?h r . ec °gnise the position given to them in the world as fair."

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Th. e settlement is bound to appear seveie to the Germans, said the Primate, but "it also must be such citi 2 S en U nf eS f,,t 0 the ord >nary German chnnrp nf ci , 6 generations an even cnance 01 snai ing in the benpfit<2 r*f c'w • neighbours, providing his State is itself behavimr A% F° OC L" e ; ghbour among them." taiitv in thl ra^ mng of a new ™en- \ ia - i the German people, the n.joi.'lp' wlir S; '" J "V" no . conquered conquenfrs? U ' a ' m " S from So he looks to the good Germans who have been loyal to what would JEter their nation

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was the third sermon preached by the Archbishop in two days and followed two days of presiding at the Upper House of Convocation—the Cabinet of the Church —where he was called upon to sneak many times a day.