FINAL REPUDIATION OF WAR

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 167, 11 April 1935, Page 7

FINAL REPUDIATION OF WAR

No Alternative For Church DR. NORWOOD’S DRAMATIC ADDRESS By Telegraph.—Press Assu. —Copyright. London, April 9. Urging that there was no alternative for the churches of the world than a complete and final repudiation of war, Dr. F. W. Norwood, in his presidential address to the National Free Church Assembly, dramatically exclaimed: — “It would be better that Christianity had a blood-red sunset with an almost certain resurrection than that it should again posture before its Lord, giving Him thanks r >r an exhausted end when it came and calling it peace. If militarists take the world into another shambles, none will be more surprised than they at the effects of the upheaval. Not for ever will men go like sheep to the slaughter at the behest of the blind. They will ally themselves with other sheep and make an inquisition of the false shepherds who lead them astray.” PREVENTING WAR Mr. Baldwin on Collective Security (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, April 9. Mr. Stanley Baldwin, owing to an cngagement in Wales, was unable to attend yesterday’s Cabinet meeting. He spoke last night at Llandrindod Wells, and referred to the outlook in international politics. At times, he said, he felt that he was living in a madhouse. A great attempt was made at Versailles to redraw the map of Europe, aud to allow for differences, so far as they were concerned with ethnology. Wise and just though it might have been, that attempt had not been accepted as such by all to whom the settlement was applied. ■ ‘‘We fought the war to make > Hie world safe for democracy,” he said, “find the world is not safe for democracy and all that that word means today.” He had not lost hope yet in the limitation of armaments, he added, and he would stick to Germany on that subject until she had declared that she would not have anything to do with it. "But if she or any other country will not consider these things, then I think the situation becomes far more difficult. I would say this—this country does not want war. and does not mean to have war, and if war can only be stopped by letting the aggressor know that war will not be permitted hi Europe, this country will play her part, I am convinced, with the rest of Europe to see that li'o aggression shall take place. Collective security is a difficult subject. We do not know, we cannot tell, what form it may take, but as one who has been studying and working on this question throughout bad times through many years I am driven to the conclusion that the best way we have of ensuring peace is by •some means of collective security, and to that end. inside the League of Nations, the whole of Europe must get together to play its part and devise means by which this great end can be achieved.” (Note on Page 5.) CUTTING WAR PROFITS American House Passes Bill Washington, April 9. By a vote of 367 to 15 the Anti-war Profits Bill, carrying a provision for taxing away all excessive war earnings, was passed by the House of Representatives and sent to the Senate.