CHRISTIAN BASES

Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 21981, 9 March 1943, Page 3

CHRISTIAN BASES

DEMOCRATIC PHILOSOPHY FREEDOM AND DUTY (Official Wireless) (Received March 9. noon) RUGBY, March 8 “The future well-being of the world,” the Vice-President of the United States, Mr Wallace, declared at Delaware, Ohio, today, “demands net only some control of German education after the war but also an effective understanding between Marxism, as it is being modified in Russia, and democracy, as the Western Nations are adapting it to modern conditions.” Mr Wallace, who was speaking at a conference on the Christian basis of a world order, at the Wesleyan University, said that the democratic Christian philosophy denied that man was made for war, whether international war as preached by the Russians or class war as asserted by Marxism, but believed that ultimate peace was inevitable, and that all men were brothers and God their father. He pointed out that this democratic philosophy pervaded not only the hearts and minds of those who lived by Christianity but also those who drew inspiration from Mohammedanism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism, or other faiths. There was a seeming conflict between freedom and duty, and it would take the spirit of democracy to resolve it. Service to others—the essence of democracy—must capture the hearts of men over the entire world if human civilisation was not to be torn to pieces in a series of war revolutions. Democracy is the hope of civilisation. Understanding With Russia “A third world war appears inevitable unless the Western democracies and Russia reach a satisfactory understanding before the conflict ends,” said Mr Wallace. He added: “That war will be certain if Prussia is permitted to rearm either materially or psychologically. That war is probable if we double-cross Russia. If full employment is furnished we need not fear a revival of the old line of communistic propaganda from within after the war. Otherwise such propaganda is inevitable. By collaborating with the rest of the world we shall raise our own standand of living and help raise the standard of others.” Mr Wallace affirmed that democracy must be tremendously more efficient in the service of the common man.