NEW WORLD ORDER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 190, 14 August 1940, Page 6

NEW WORLD ORDER

NOT ENOUGH TO BEAT HITLERISM NAZISM MUST BE DISCREDITED [ British Official Wireless J RUGBY, Aug. 12. The Bishop of London, Rt. Rev. Dr. G. F. Fisher, broadcasting in a series entitled “The Spiritual Issues of the War,” given over one 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 said. “When Herr 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 sense of direction, loss of soul, sense of importance. and its unmeant, but too little regarded, insults to the dignity of man. New World Order “It is not enough to beat 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 sublimate those elements of our pre-war civilisation which ■ were Hitler-pro-ducing 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 beaten 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 selfinterest, still less in propaganda and mass hysteria as instruments of government,” he said. “But more than that—general opinion must no longer believe in any system 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 of any industrial, economic, or bureaucratic machinery.”