VENGEANCE ON GERMANY
ARCHBISHOP’S WARNING.
(Rec. 12.50 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 22. Drawing a distinction between retribution and vengeance, the Archbishop of York, in his presidential address to the Convocation of York, said the name of Germany w r as increasingly becoming for civilised peoples, a name of hatred and execration. There must be punishment for her crimes. Mr. Churchill was undoubtedly right when he included retribution among the war aims, but it was easy to slide from retribution into desire to exact vengeance, which was a naked evil producing bitterness, finally. A retaliatory war, besides, corroded the soul of him indulging in vengeance. It was natural for men under strain to raise a cry for vengeance. We must be ready for this, but not to yield to it. THE NEWPRIMATE. LONDON, January 22. The successor to Dr. Lang as Archbishop of Canterbury will shortly be nominated by Mr. Churchill for Royal approval. The choice is believed to lie between Bishop Fisher, of London, and Archbishop Temple, of York,
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 January 1942, Page 4
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