“MOURNING DAY”
CHURGH MA N IFESTO
SIGNING OF PEACE TREATY
The German Evangelical Church Coinmitdo representing tho country’s (largest religious Organisation, lias issued a manifesto to ti o Evangelical Churches throughout the nation calr upon them to observe the tenth anniversary of the signing- ol the Versailles Peace Treaty on June 28 as a day of mourning. The manifesto says that tlb distress and poverty arising from tho treaty’s immense financial burdens have caused tho deepest bitterness. “The belief in humanity and even ii| this Divinity has been affected. The treaty stamped Germans as war crim inals, who caused the war witTf criminal intent and waged it criminally. It is a intolerable accusation. Ah impartial ivostigntiou would vindicate tho German people, and a complete elucidation of the origins of the war should be s’igoroVslE'idchrhildetl.
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Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2244, 27 June 1929, Page 3
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