The enthusiasm with which the Oxford Group movement conducts its publi and propaganda is, no doubt, highly satisfactory to its sponsors who thus prove that their creed is abreast of modern methods. At the same time there ere pitfalls against which the Movement might do well to protect itself if the latest issue of its organ, "The Drums of Peace," is any guide. In an article on activities of the Movement in the Far East—duly adorned by a photograph of Dr, H. H. Kung—the following passage appear:
Together with this realization by responsible leaders of what the message of the Oxford Group may mean for China a steady infiltration of new hie is beginning to affect many sections of this vast people.
At the beginning of 1936 the Chinese Government introduced some important monetary reforms involving the calling-in of stocks of silver from local banks to the "Central Bank. Bankers feared a public panic. But in one large city. a bank official, who had lost all fear by surrender 10 God, persuaded his colleagues not to close their banks, in spite of the dangers. Subsequently, there proved to be full confidence among the public, while in. another large city, where the banks were closed, there was serious rioting.
Inaccurate information on China may creep into the best-intentioned and respectable journals, but it does seem a pity that the Oxford Grou" "Movement should be victimized in this way. Reference to any authoritative account of the institution of China's monetary reforms—in the beginning of November 1935, not 1936 by the way—would have safeguarded the writer of the article from making so naive a claim. Perhaps {he cultivation of a better sense of humour might assist in supplying a more critical judgment.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.