PACIFISM CONDEMNED
REAL DANGER TO PEACE BISHOP OF LONDON’S VIEWS f LONDON, Feb. 5. “It can be a Christian duty to kill,” declared the Archbishop of Yoi’k, speaking at the Church Assembly at Westminster. He expressed the opinion that pacific agitation was increasing the danger of war. The Assembly passed a resolution recognising the Government’s right to maintain necessary defence forces, and stating that Christians may bear arms for that policy. The Bishop of London declared that the real dangers to peace were the pacifists. “There is no great danger of war if we are strong enough,” he said. “If we had adopted the view of pacifists in 1914 either the German Emperor or Herr Hitler would now be at Whitehall. I would rather die than see bombs dropping on children while we stood by doing nothing.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23109, 8 February 1937, Page 9
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