INTERNATIONAL IDEALS.
rr£n unquaMed acceptance of the international oontrol of the world's affairs must carry with it the willing surrender of pnrely nationalistic aspirations. A British subject may rightly refuse to fight, and if neeessary die, for a purely British interest, while as a Christian he can hardly hold back from fighting for what considered world opinion deliberately believes to be' international justice. I have the deepest respeet for the passive resister who is prepared to go to prison rather than shed blood, and I would hesitate to appear to he in any way critical of what must often — -but not always — be a very courageous decisio.n, for it is sometimes easier to fight than to refqge to do so, but I none the less think that his viewpoint is a mistaken one. There are some things in life that are more precious than life itselfj it is better to die for an ideal than to live with a consciousness that we are xepudiating the highest of which we are capable." — Mr Angiis Watson, J.P., in the Christian World (London).
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 70, 9 April 1937, Page 4
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