Severed Relations The Easter action of the Evangelical Church in Nazi Germany in severing relations with the Archbishop of Canterbury because of his alleg~ ed "anti-Nazi agitation and Bolshevik. tendent fies" should not cause the British prolate a moment's worry. It would not be surprising {to learn that this was the first intimation to the Church of England that relations which could be severed existed between it and the German church, outside those relations: which must inevitably bind together those who strive with a common purpose towards the Teatization of Christ's Kingdom upon earth. And it can hardly be believed that the German leaders intend to intimate that ea-operation in this caus [which is after all the principal raison détre of all churches, is to be discontinued because of political differences. "Unfortunately the German cchureh is divided, and that part of it whleti has been unable to incorporate sections of the Ni tonal Socialist ideology in its creed has been firmly repressed. The belief that war is an end itself, which is entertained by many of the Nazi leaders, is incompatible with a religion that preaches peace on earth, and goodwill; and thus a large number of German Protestants have been forced into conscientious disagreement with their authorities which no amount of political interference with the leadership of the Evangelical Church has been able to change. Though there is margin enough to disagree with the Archbishop of Canterbury's utterances on international affairs on many points, His Grace has been in the best company in'urging the Preservation of peace and. deploring the doctrine of force which is the weapon of power diplomacy. The late Pontiff and the present occupant of the Holy See have made similar appeals—appeals which have the sympathy of all right-thinking citizens of the world, President Lebrun Albert Lebrun has been re-elected President of the French Republic by a comfortable majority as was anticipated when it became Known that he had been prevailed upon to stand for candidature for a second term. 'The importance of this election cannot be minimized. M. Lebrun becomes the second President in the history of the French Republic to be elected for another. seven years' term, and at this critical juncture in European affairs it enables Daladier to maintain the necessary continuity of policy which might have been interrupted had the Presidency changed. France has been described as government by an. innumerable number of parties all of them French and this illustrated by the re-election of M. Lebrun at a time when a unity of interests has been achieved in face of a diMeult situation, The other French citizen to attain the distinction re-election to the Presidency was M. Francois Paul Jules Grevy, who was elected on January 20, 1879 and accepted a second term on December 18, 1885." President Lebrun's long. career makes him a fitting occupant of the post He was born a year after the Franco-Prassian war and entered political life as Deputy of the Department of Meurthe-t-Moselle.
Tu 1911, he became Minister of Colonies Caittoux in 1912. re which he abandoned with the fal care Government in January, 1913. M. Lebrun Felurned to the Government when M. Doumer-ne formed a new cabinet in December of that year and he served until June, 1914. tu 1918, hho headed the administration of the war-ravaged regions for at that time he was member of the special War Committee. In 1931, he was elected President of the Senate succeeding "M. Paul Doumer, who then became President, and barely year later M. Lebrun was elected. President when Mf, Doumer was assassinated by a Russian, Alexander Gorgouloff, in Paris.
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