MORAL VALUES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 218, 13 August 1940, Page 7

MORAL VALUES.

PURPOSE OF STRUGGLE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. Aug. 11. The Bishop of London (Dr. G- F. i'ishoi), broadcasting in a series entitled “The Spiritual Issues of the War,” given over ten of the United States radio systems, said the British determination to defeat Hitlerism was inspired by a faith which went deeper even than belief in human liberty. “As we have seen one country after another deprived by Hitler of justice and mercy, of free speech and conscience and free Christian living, we have seen more clearly their true value,” he 6aid. “When Hitler demands living room, he means, as his acts declare, that Germany shall be the managing-director of a European mortuary, in which God’s law and man’s liberty are dead. We are fighting for life—and for the world’s life as well as our own.” Dr. Fisher defined Hitlerism as the manifestation of all the moral malaise of the pre-war world —its loss of direction, loss of soul, sense of importance and its unmeant, but too little regarded, insults to the dignity of man. ENDING HITLERISM.

“It is not enough to defeat Hitler,” he went on. “He is the outcome of a world that has lost the strong impulse of hope and aspiration. There must be a recovery of creative hope in a world order which cannot produce Hitlers large or small, which sublimates those elements of our pre-war civilisation which were Hitler-producing and hopeless and which sets free all the good elements of that pre-war order and carries them to fulfilment.” Attributing the failure after the last war to make a success of the great experiment of organising peace to the fact that the League of Nations idea was accepted more as a way of escape than as a creative fact, the Bishop reiterated that not only must Nazism be defeated - but that it must be discredited and with it all that gave birth to it. “Nations must no longer believe in power politics and unfettered self-in-terest, still lees in propaganda and mass hysteria as instruments of government,” he said. “But more than that—general opinion must no longer believe in any svstem which denies the true worth and brotherhood of man or which subjects him as a slave and victim to any form of exploitation or to the impersonal domination oi any industrial, economic or bureaucratic machinery.”