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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 15, 13 October 1943, Page 4

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Dean Warren To Speak In Wellington In order to promote an international Christian approach to the establishmen. of world order, 61 Christian leaders m%for four days in an international round table conference at Princeton in July. There were representatives trom 12 unt'erent countries, from North America, Europe Asia and Australia and New Zealand. The Very Rev. A. K. Warren. Xir'diean Dean of Christchurch, was the New Zealand representative, and he is now touring the Dominion to give a first-hand account of the conference and of his experiences in the United states. He will speak at. the AVesley Hall, laranaki Street, Wellington, tomorrow night at S o’clock. The subject of his address will be “The Bases of a Just and Durable Peace.” It was to study these bases that the conference was convened by a commission constituted by the I'ederal Council of the Churches of Christ in America in collaboration witii the Canadian United Church Commission on Church, Nation and World Order. AVhile most of the participants were from member States of ■ the United Nations, there were also present citizens and former citizens of countries with which the United Nations are at war. Among lavmen who took part were men and women who had had official connex ion with the Yersuiiles Pence Confercnee, industrial and economic commissions, diplomatic and embassy staff's, commissions on colonial settlements, offices of war information, defence commissions. and boards ami agencies connected with various types of church work. Some were experts in international law and international finance. Among this clerical participants were leaders in the ecumenical movenieul, in national church bodies, in missions, in work among youth and in social action. Some were pastors and some were professors in seminaries ami universities. Dean Warren, as one who took part in tlie deliberations, had the benefit of the opinions of these various representatives. The gathering sought to. accomplish these purposes: (1) To obtain further informal ion on issues wherein the application of Christian principles and of political propostions derived therefrom involves (ici-uliar difficulties and complexities: (2) to promise a belter understand, ing of the views held by Christians in various countries; (3) to formulate, insofar as possible, a consensus of views on the problems of order in the post-war world.