MUST BE UNITY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19893, 22 March 1939, Page 5

MUST BE UNITY

PEACE AND FREEDOM GRAVE WORLD ISSUES CALL BY CHURCHMAN STAND BY CHRISTIANTTY (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Tress Assn. (Reed. March 22, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, March 21. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Cosmo Lang, during his speech in the House of Lords yesterday, said: "While it is painful to contemplate a 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 valuing the ideals of peace and freedom. "Many have found co-operation with Russia difficult, but where supreme

Dr. Cosmo Lang.

issues are concerned we must be ready to accept help from any quarter." Dr. Lang recalled his own appeal to the church heads in Europe in 1935 and the issue of a simultaneous appeal for peace. He added that he was mindful to renew the invitation, but much depended on whether the Pope would give the leadership. It was not inconceivable that, under the Pope's leadership, other Christian leaders would willingly issue an appeal. The Archbishop of Canterbury promised that all leaders of the Anglican and Orthodox. Protestant churches would give simultaneous . support. In a sermon yesterday Dr. said that if the challenge to the whole basis of the civilised order of mankind were to go unanswered we could never be assured of peace again. A message from Vatican City states that the appeal of the Archbishop oi. Canterbury is appreciated, but it is not believed that the Pope will depart from the policy of no political initiative.

DOMINIONS INFORMED NO CONSULTATION YET POLICY OF BRITAIN ORecd. March 22, noon) CAPETOWN, March 21. The South African Prime Minister, General J. B. Hertzog, in the Assembly stated that Britain was keeping the Dominions informed, but the Union Government had not been consulted as to whether it supported the attitude of the British Government. CONFUSED POSITION ARMS OF THE STATES PROBABLE NAZI LOSSES LONDON, March 16. European reaction to Herr Hitler's occupation of Prague remains largely confused. Nevertheless, the impression prevails in diplomatic circles in London, Paris, 'Warsaw, Rome and Moscow that Germany is likely to lose on several points. It is thought that if Germany accepts the occupation by Poland and Hungary of the Carpatho-Ukraine, of which Italy approves, she will lose the kernel of the constitution of the Great Ukrainian State. If Germany allows the CarpathoUkraine to fall into Hungary's grip, it is believed that it will not be because Germany would not have preferred some otherj solution to the notorious desires of Hungary's Italian patron. On the other hand, Hungary wants the Carpatho-Ukraine partly by way of regaining a lost province, and partly in order to obtain a common frontier with Poland, and thereby erect a barrier to Germany's eastward drive. Poland also desires its annexation by Hungary partly for the last-mentioned reason, and partly as a counter to Ukrainian nationalism, which, with German connivance, threatens her own integrity. However, the value of the CarpathoUkraine to Poland and Hungary appears in some quarters to have been seriously diminished by the denouement in Slovakia, which, it is considered, will enable Germany to outflank Hungary from the north, and render the Carpatho-Ukraine from the strategic standpoint less valuable. Some observers believe that in Slovakia Germany has chosen an ideal base for the Mittel-Europa.