Religion: Fellowship of Faiths

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"There is not much difference between the religions," said he. "It is what results in service that counts. I am trying to bring my priests to this idea, to get them away from forms. At home I wear a little red mark on my forehead and the proper turbans and costumes. ... I might apply it here by saying that a man's dress and the color and form of his caste marks would show from what city and what church he came. A New York Presbyterian would wear a certain sign. A Chicago Methodist would have another mark. I am a very rich man. and so people approach me with special marks of reverence." And the Gaekwar demonstrated by placing folded hands on his forehead. Invited to attend the Chicago meetings, Mahatma Gandhi cabled Bishop McConnell last May: CAN REPLY ONLY AFTER BREAK FAST. Last week he added: FELLOWSHIP FAITHS ATTAINABLE ONLY BY MUTUAL RESPECT IN ACTION FOR FAITHS SORRY VISIT OCTOBER UNLIKELY.

At the opening session last week a message was read from England's Laborite Arthur Henderson, who a few days later got back into Parliament after a two-year absence (see p. 18). Of the comatose World Disarmament Conference of which he is president, he wrote: "I have steadfastly refused to contemplate the possibility of failure. . . . But we shall reach our goal only if the efforts of the world's governments are strengthened and guided by the firm purpose and steady pressure of their peoples."

Cinema propaganda for peace was urged by Professor Francis J. Onderdonk of the University of Michigan. More exciting was young Yoshiaki Fukuda, head of Japan's Konkokyo (Shinto) sect (not to be confused with the Tenrikyo sect, whose Patriarch Shozen Nakayama, also at the Parliament, talked about the sect's foundress, his great-grandmother—TIME, Aug. 28). Shintoist Fukuda flayed as "sentimental" any pacifism which ignores "hindrances"—such as Japan's need for territory. Shintoist Fukuda, like Publisher William Randolph Hearst (see p. 21) and members of last fortnight's Banff conference, admitted war between Japan and the U. S. is not impossible.

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