duly 1 On the occasion of the feast of St. Peter and St. Paul, His Holiness the Pope has issued an inspiring message. "The triumph of evil cannot endure. The hour of good will come with freedom and joy, and will permit the resurrection of peace."' After referring to the evil, suffering and anguish that grip lives over the world, he remarked on comforting signs "which fill our hearts with great and holy expectation—generous courage in the defence of the fundamentals of Christian civilization and confident hope of their triumph." In the welter of slaughter into which the Nazis have hurled the people fof the world, amid all the horrors, the per= secution, and the murder which is daily reported—all things which are evil in themselves—there may be a tendency to overlook the fundamental evil which lies behind the Nazi movement, the philosophy, if such it can be called, which is the inspiration of all these atrocities. It should be emphasized that the Nazis repudiate the very foundations of the Christian faith. It may be argued that there are others who do that, without precipitating world wars. But the Nazis not! only repudiate the Christian foundations, they actively oppose Christianty, a faith beside which their Nazism cannot live. Christianity glories in the Beatitudes; Nazism glories brule force. Ins expounders have even gone so far as at times to deny the existence of the individual human soul; in its place they put some dark racial creed, upon which they have built a doctrine that man's soul is merged in some mystical attri bute with which they invest the State. And they have not hesitated to quote selected statements of Jesus Christ in support of their contentions.
One of the most cynical philosophers of! Nazism, Hans Bluher, evolved a theory that the human species were divided into a primary race, by which he meant the Germans, destined to rule; and a secondary race, in which he lumped the rest of the world, the people who were destined to be ruled. This] secontiary race, according to him, could never reach the heights of the primary race, however hard they might strive. In the course] of this work he makes the remarkable claim that not even the Kingdom of Heaven will requite the secondary race for the trials they may have to suffer upon earth, and states! that the true kernel of Christian wisdom is not the Sermon on the Mount, but the statement "For whosoever hath, to him shall be given." This he interprets in its most literal sense; that Jesus came not to save'mankind but to demonstrate the law of value—the principle of waste and selection. In short, he twists the statement of Christ into a justification for conquest and aggression—ot course by the primary race. "A more impudent bit of sophistry can hardly be imgained.
Yet a contemporary of Bluher's has managed to place an even more extraordinary Another Peace Kite?
There is an unconfirmed report from Ankara fo the effect that von Papen, German Ambassador {0 Turkey, has approached Great Britain through the Turkish Government with an offer fof peace providing the British joined in a coalition against Bolshevism. 1¢ has to be emphasized that the report is unconfirmed, but it Funs so true to the commonly.accepted idea" fof Hitler's form that it may be accepted as highly probable. If it is true, it is a. clear me dication that the sinister comedians in Berlin completely fail to understand the determina. ion of the British people that Hitler and all hho stands for must disappear before there is any possibility of discussing peace. The idea of Britain voluntarily Joining any coalition in which Hitler was fo be the moving spirit is absolutely unthinkable, and if von Papen be-Heves for one moment that he is able to cozen the British Government as he has the Govern. ments of so many other countries i is time he had another thought coming to him. Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, British Ambassador "(0 Turkey, 1s reported to have made the British Position quite clear by referring to the most Fecent declarations of Mr. Winston Churchill. The British have a habit of honouring their commitments, and, if Mr. Churchill were to lembatk upon any peace discussions with [Hitler nove popular indignation would speedily sweep him' from office. Naturally Germany would like to get Britain out of this war of liber ruler'y choosing, especially as the RA.F. is giving the Germans plenty to think about. But the time for peace is not yet. They ca have it when they. get rid of Hitler -and his myrmidons, and not one moment before.
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