MENACE OF FORCE NOW FACING WORLD
STAIN ON RECORD OF NAZI RULERS
CHURCHMAN'S SCATHING CENSURE
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Reed. 10.45 a.m. RUT! PA , Oct. 41. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Cosmo Lang, speaking at a diocesan conference, asked if we could doubt that the world was now confronted by the menace of a force which was really and truly evil.
“Consider the persecution and the cruelty indicted on people, whose only crime was their blood or their loyalty to religion and conscience,” he said. “Consider all the almost incredible miseries suffered in concentration camps, which stain the record of the present rulers of Germany. “We. are using no mere language of exaggeration when we describe this spirit, armed with ruthless force, as in truth satanic.
“There arc some among us who feel passionately that the use of countervailing force, with all its terrible consequences, is against the mind of Christ. I must respect their conscience, but I cannot doubt that a Christian citizen is fully justified in giving his support and service to his country.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20083, 1 November 1939, Page 7
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