DISARMAMENT PLEA

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 52, 1 February 1932, Page 8

DISARMAMENT PLEA

VOICE OF ARCHBISHOP. CO-OPERATION, NOT COM- .... PETITION. ■ (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Received February 1, 1.16 p.m. GENEVA, Jan. 31. The Archbishop of. York, Dr. Temple, preaching at St. Peter’s. CathedraLth, a representative congregation inclp<J?i ing the German Disarmament Conference delegation on -the text, “We are members one of another,” said the clause in the peace treaties affixing to ono group of belligerents in the Great War the whole moral guilt :, of the war offended the Christian conscience. Christendom’s .voice, he added, must be raised for its deletion by those who framed the treaties. '< .Referring to the Disarmament Coni ference. Dr. Temple said: “Armaments have been representative of the conception of national sovereignty which is politically, pernicious and; an abomination to Cnristians. The opportunity now afforded to abandon, competition for co-operation is the acid test of the sincerity of the hom-j age we pay to peace. , “I believe and still believe in Britain’s duty in 1914. lam still more convinced that there is an urgent duty to prevent a recurrence of a situation in which such a course is obligatory or even permissible,” Dr. Temple added.