PRIDE IN RUSSIA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 October 1941, Page 6

PRIDE IN RUSSIA

EXPRESSED BY ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY PRESENT & FUTURE RELATIONS. NEW SPIRIT AWAKENED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 9.55 a.m.) RUGBY, October G. Pride in Russia as •an ally was expressed by the Archbishop of Canterbury at a Diocesan Conference. The Primate said he felt that a new spirit had been shown in recent years by the Soviet leaders and that a fuller plan had been given by them to religious toleration. In view of the mighty issues at stake it was rather the present and the future which must be spoken of than the past, and what now concerned the British people was not any party or economic system, but a new and most moving uprising of the whole Russian people. "Who can tell what the effect may be upon the ordering of the post-war world of a closer relationship between, on the one hand, Russia united by affliction and emancipated from the errors of the past, and on the other, the British Commonwealth and the United States?” the Archbishop added. “We have something to learn from Russia, in the bold and far-seeing planning of ’economic resources for the good of the whole community. They have something to learn from us, in giving scope for the freedom and responsibility of human personality.”