WAR DANCE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 October 1938, Page 5

WAR DANCE

VIEWS OF THE ARCH OF CANTERBURY SOME THEORIES DISCOU. NEED OF C|OOD LEADERS!. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.2 a.m.) RUGBY. October 17. Speaking at the Canterbury Diocesan Conference, the Archbishop of Canterbury, referring to the recent crisis, said he knew it was said by some that war with the dictators of Europe was inevitable sooner or later, and that it would have been as well to have seized the opportunity now and fought that issue out. He could only say he could not understand how any thinking man could justify staking the whole future of civilisation upon an uncertain prediction of an unknown future. Again, it had been said that they might never have been brought to the brink of war if it had been stated earlier and definitely that Britain was prepared to fight—that what was said as a warning ought to have been delivered as a threat, and that then no war would have happened. He could only say that the. game of what is called bluff seemed to him like gambling with the lives of millions of human beings. Therefore, to use the words of Mr Baldwin, "I decline to admit either the inevitability of war or the effectiveness of bluff." There was a tendency to sink into accustomed ways of living and thinking and it ’ was impossible to stress too greatly the responsibility laid .upon the generation which lived through these times. In the secular sphere they must look to the Government to lead people to gird up its loins in defence of its security and for the enlisting of all the people in some form of national service.