DANGERS OF WORLD SITUATION

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22306, 21 January 1938, Page 11

DANGERS OF WORLD SITUATION

♦ CHURCH'S ANXIETY AND DISMAY jArPEAL MADE BY ARCHBISHOP ! OF CANTERBURY (BBITISB OFFICIAL WIRELESS.) RUGBY, January 19. Presiding at the opening session of the Convocation of Canterbury, the Archbishop of Canterbury said that they could not contemplate the present world situation without grave anxiety and dismay. The Wc.r in China was giving a sinister warning of what any war on a wider scale would mean to civilisation. In the midst of confusion in the world they could only hope that the British Commonwealth would prove ar influence for peace, and remain on terms of friendship with all nations. There were obviously two lines of policy which ought to be followed. The first was to maintain and strengthen co-operation with the United States, and the second to do their utmost, while continuing the established friendship with France, to reach a friendly understanding with Germany. He wanted to see a fuller and more generous recognition of the words of Herr Hitler about his desire to do all possible to maintain the peace of Europe. But, at the same time, he would reiterate his question to Germany as to why she alienated the sympathies of the people of Britain and other countries, who were most anxious to be (~» friendly terms with her, by continued acts of interference with the Roman Catholic and Protestant Churches there.