13 OCTOBER 1944, Page 4

The new International Organisation, like the old, will owe some-

thing to Calvinism, even, if it is not domiciled in Calvin's city. It was in recollection of his Scottish forebears- that President Wilson urged that the organisation created after the last war should be called a League, and its constitution the Covenant. So far as I know, none of the negotiators at Dumbarton Oaks had Scottish blood in him, and I doubt whether any of them realised that the term General Assembly, which they applied to the full body of delegates, had as large a place in the history of the Church of Scotland as the Solemn League and Covenant. But it has.

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