DYNAMIC CHRISTIANITY AND WAR

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22340, 2 March 1938, Page 8

DYNAMIC CHRISTIANITY AND WAR

TO TUB EDITOH OF TUB PEESS. Sir, —“Liberty” and myself are enrolled in the same army, although in different branches, engaged on distant fronts, and while wo agree on thepart of the anatomy human affairs should be conducted by, we evidently disagree on the relative merits or demerits of a thick head and a hard ll( The task of statesmen worthy Of the name is to effect the minimum requirement of a more permanent, safe order of things in an effort to. control irresponsibility and greed operating in an economic system on which great numbers of individuals rely for thenlivelihood. But there were wars before capitalism existed, and the psychological causes call for serious consideration —in fact, are of fundamental importance. In viewing current events, the diplomatic policy of retreat and recession,' the immunity developed to the horrors of the last year or two, are not only exemplified in the shifting of the centre of gravity of the Commonwealth away from the House of Commons, but the retreat Is losing valuable ground, for wmich our present civilisation has paid dearly. It is my opinion that “Liberty, in Ins case for monetary reform, is considering. secondary problems, while weighing lightly fundamental ones. It would be difficult to deny that by owning the instruments of production within itself, a Socialist State has already taken-a large step toward realising the prospect of a permanent pCcicc. A community of suen otcitcs, by reason of their natural inclination to concentrate upon domestic • wellbeing, is the more likely to pursue a pacific policy than any other form of social organisation, for to use a Ford aphorism, “Industry does not support man; man supports industry. Industry is mind using Nature to make human life more free.”— etc., Cx.D.b February 28, 1938