T have been similarly distressed that more than once you seem to go out of your way (o attack religious leaders for making pronouncements re international affairs.
Very many citizens assert that these questions do come within the ken of religion, Why? Because as Mr. Wellingion Koo has so ably pointed out on more than one occasion, a breakdown in international morality Ig likely to lead to a breakdown in morality elsewhere. In your issue of July 13, you state "high morality has given place to the most sordid of ex-Pedients," Does morality not come within the purview of religious leaders? Jesus Christ came to call sinners to repentance.
Recently you Rotary Internation and picking a British resolution which condemned war as barbarous. If an International body of lay leaders in religion had passed such a motion, presumably you would have blamed them for doing such an outrageous thing!
In your issue of July 9, there appeared a report stating that Mr. Eden had also been rather outspoken {in entiaing the foreign policy of the British Government. "It is interesting to record that when Mr. Eden was acting in his office as Foreign Minister he delivered an important specch—hailed as Important by the London "Times"—in which he said the Foreign Office welcomed the pression of public opinion. Black is Black, wrong is wrong, and if the Church—a body which includes lay people as well -as. clerics—is Femain silent on matters of morality, jon matters which affect the life and welfare of the citizens of the land, it will not be true to its Master.
The Protestant Church is proud of the word "Protestant"—long may it continue to protest against immoral policies.
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