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“VERY FOREIGN AFFAIRS”

REALISM IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS. What indeed is realism when specifically directed to international affairs? The evidence sticks out a mile, yet we miss it, writes Dr. George Glasgow, the veteran diplomatic correspondent, in his “Diplomacy and God.” What the plain man knows is that the conventions and standards of behaviour applicable to the relations between nations are something quite different from these which regulate the relations between individuals in any single nation. The same man can at the same time behave and talk reasonably, often even charitably, in his business and social contacts at home, yet talk and behave like a hooligan when the subject is “foreign affairs.” The fact is so commonplace that it tends to escape notice. Hitler can address a German audience, men and women, educated, cultured and by the accepted standards even intelligent, on the subject of his “foreign policy,” can shriek his hysterical nonsense, and his audience will lash itself into a frenzy of enthusiasm. The realist problem in foreign affairs is to get back to Christ; and that process cannot be started until the so-called Christians themselves- go back io Christ. In other words the very beginning of wisdom toward the solution of the diplomatic problem in Europe must be sought in the religious field. Until the professed followers of Christ decide either to unite as one body and one Church, or at least to abandon their recriminations and bitterness on denominational distinctions, we waste our breath when we cry for international unity.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 September 1941, Page 6

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“VERY FOREIGN AFFAIRS” Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 September 1941, Page 6

“VERY FOREIGN AFFAIRS” Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 September 1941, Page 6

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