To the Editor of the "Nonmi-Cuma Das News'
Sin—I note with interest that in your able and restrained leader in this morning's issue of the "North China" you repudiate the suggestion put forward by a correspondent that Britain should withdraw from the League. One of the reasons on which the suggestion is founded is the fact, that the Soviet Government has expelled God from the confines of country over which for ages under the Tsarist regime he held undis-uted sway, and the results of which are I believe fairly well known now.
This elimination however of Almighty God from the exercise of any executive power whatever in. the Internal affairs of the Soviet is at least consistent on the part of an admittedly atheistic Government. With the League, however, the matter resents a very ifterent aspect. 70 use your correspondent's impressive phrase, "The Chief Ruler of the World' is entirely "ignored and outed." Snubbed in fact.
Yel, how very different it was in those fateful years of 1914-1918 when. his name was constantly invoked by. all the belligerents on behalf of their mutual mass massacres. Nor was it invoked in vain for the mas-sacros were carried onl on an Une At that time, the Soviet Republic was nol in existence, or rather, she refused to participate in the slaughter and signed an "ignoble" peace. How she reconciles that peaceful gesture with her now evident desire to be in Teague with the acquisitive and predatory Christian Powess seems almost incomprehensible. It may be, course, that she feels she might bbe able 0 exercise a restraining influence, So mote it bel Snonghal, Juse 4
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