London, Jan. 17.
The Archbishop of Canterbury declared today that the church must prepare actively for the tasks which would face it when peace plans should be formulated.
The Archbishop was speaking in the Upper House of the Convocation of Canterbury.
"Some of us," he declared, "have been criticized because we have spoken of the Nazi role as intrinsic cally evil. But what else is it—viewed not only as a policy in international light but in association with the barbarities of the concentration camp, the cruelties of the persecution of Jews, and the undisguised piracy on the high seas?
"A victorious peace may be only a moral desert, unless it leaves a sustained endeavour to bring about a civilization better than that which the war has broken."—Reuter.
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