CALL FOR UNITY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 95, 22 March 1939, Page 9

CALL FOR UNITY.

AIICHBISHOP’S APPEAL. LONDON, March 21. The Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr. Lang), speaking in the House of Lords following Lord Halifax’s speech, said . “Though it is painful to contemplate the massing of forces, we are driven to do it because we are convinced that some things are more sacred than peace. . ~ “There must be union among all those valuing the ideals of peace and freedom. Manv have found co-opera-j tion with Russia difficult to contemJ plate, but where supreme issues are r concerned we must lie ready to accept help from any quarter.” The Archbishop of Canterbury recalled his own appeal to Church leaders in Europe in 1935 and the issue of a simultaneous appeal for peace. He added that he was mindful to renew the invitation, hut much depended on whether the Pope would give leadership. It was not. inconceivable that, under the Pope’s leadership, other Christian leaders would willingly issue an appeal. ~ ~ , i Dr Lang promised that all the leaders of the Anglican, Orthodox and Protestant Churches would give their simultaneous support.