JAPAN: Christians Rebuked

Members of the Rotary Club of Tokyo entertained 20 visiting U. S. Rotarians last week with a banquet at which the Japanese speakers completely abandoned the honeyed platitudes with which Rotarians are often entertained. Matosako Zumoto, Vice President of the World Press Congress, roundly declared:

"When Christians come in contact with peoples of other creeds the results are not always conducive to peace and harmony.

"Unfortunately the religion of the nations which now dominate the world is of the masterful, imperialistic and exclusive type, and therefore cannot be counted as a force...

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