FIRST STEP

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 450, 2 January 1934, Page 5

FIRST STEP

Towards Recovery and Peace ! FEAR MUST BE CONi QUERED \ | ADDRESS BY ARCHBISHOP j i Press Association —Copyright. ] London, Dec. 31. j The Archbishop of Canterbury in a broadcast throughout England declared that the conquest of fear was the first step towards recovery and peace. The year 1933 had been international,ly disappointing, he said. Those chattering about the nex. war and demand - I ing preparation for it were the germs j of infection, for talking of war as inevj itabie might make it so. Everyone should i support the League of Nations, which i was the sole public barrier against fear i and against lawlessness. If the League i were dissolved fear would reign unchecked and the collapse of civilisation might follow the crash. I ‘’Thank God light is breaking in Eng- ! land through the clouds of the past | three years. There is reason to believe

j it is spreading confidence in the raanuI facturer, the farmer and the trader, who i have proved that fear is being conquerI cd. The conquest would be won if sanity, patience and goodwill prevailed.” ! The archbishop commended the King’s J Christmas speech. The establishment of i unemployment centres, he said, showed ! unprecedented neighbourlintss. All i should resolve not to permit vested ini terests to delay the time when it would Ino longer be a mockery to describe people’s houses as homes.