Foreign News: Point for Peace

Britain's Anglican and Free Church leaders offered a moderate, humane program for a Christian postwar Europe within a framework of "world security." Warned the Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple, Scotland's Presbyterian Moderator John Baillie, Free Church Moderator Roy D. Whitehorn: "We can not assume that defeat of tyranny will in itself suffice to establish peace, well-being and liberty."

The churchmen's most interesting point was: 1) Christian, 2) commonsensible. The point: charity towards a defeated Germany. They held that the United Nations must "remove once and for all the menace of German...

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