LIMIT REACHED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20046, 19 September 1939, Page 2

LIMIT REACHED

ANTI-PEACE CLAMOUR METHODIST CHURCH VIEW “There comes a limit,” says the New Zealand Methodist Times, in editorial comment on the international situation, “to the license exercised by international gangsters and bullies, and that limit has been reached in the case of Herr Hitler and his fellowconspirators against world .peace. It is evident that ever since the emergence of the problem -of Poland the intention of the German Chancellor has been the swallowing up of the Middle European State, with its 32 millions of population, on the ostensible ground' that the comparatively small minority of Germans in the nation clamour for inclusion in the German. Reich.

“A halt had to be called,” the article continues, “to the boundless ambitions of the Fuehrer, aiming at world hegemony, and hence it is that Britain and France were compelled to rally to the help of Poland. The forces of lawlessness cannot be allowed unhindered sway. And that is why the dogs of war are baying again so savagely in Europe. Forces of Righteousness “What the end will be no one can tell . . . but the prospects are of the gravest. We can only pray success for the forces of righteousness, that God will over-rule all the working of the wrath of man, and that from it all may come the accomplishment of His holy will.” That Mr. Chamberlain and Lord Halifax did their utmost for the preservation of peace, and the settlement of the Polish problem toy methods of negotiation, is a further expression of opinion in the article, which states:

“The patience of Poland under incessant and deliberate provocation was, we think, remarkable.”