CHRISTIAN EUROPE
SHAPING OF PEACE AIMS. The establishment of a Christian Europe as an essential to the shaping of peace aims is stressed by Lord Eustace Percy in the “Spectator." "The future of Europe,” he says, “depends' upon the future of the Christian faith. That is a political fact. It is a fact commonly ignored in political discussions, because it involves a confession that social organisation is determined by forces which neither the politician nor the scientist can control. Yet until that confession is made there can be no sane consideration of war aims or peace terms. It is surely not difficult to make it today. There may have been a time when the causes of war could be defined politically in terms of bad statecraft or scientifically in terms of imperfect adaptation to environment. But the recent history of Europe has shocked us back into the knowledge that there is such a thing as positive and deliberate evil, and we are learning again to speak the language of sin and of salvation.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 January 1940, Page 6
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173CHRISTIAN EUROPE Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 January 1940, Page 6
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