SANCTIONS
TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRESS. Sir, —While sympathising with your leading article in “The Press” to-day expressing disappointment with the attitude of British statesmen towards sanctions, I believe permanent peace cannot be secured by merely making present aggression unprofitable. The price of peace is justice, and I am afraid we are not prepared to pay it. Justice is active truth, and is absolute. It means relinquishing the privileges we have secured by aggression in the past and making restitution as far as possible. Religious unity is another desirable ideal, and in an important sense part of peace. Again, however, the price is more than we are willing to pay. The price is, I believe, the recognition of God as Absolute Truth. This stark lact is what Christ revealed. It can be revealed in a sentence, but is concealed in volumes. The unpopularity of Christ will be equalled by that of the statesman who supports justice or the church that worships truth. — Yours, etc., H. J. BUTTLE. Darfield, June 16, 1936.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21811, 17 June 1936, Page 7
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172SANCTIONS Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21811, 17 June 1936, Page 7
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