18 MAY 1934, Page 6

Documents produced as a result of group . discussions are

apt to be chiselled off and pared down till they get to be very colourless affairs. That certainly is not a characteristic of the letter (which appears on a later page of this issue) signed by the Archbishop. of Canterbury, as representing the views of a notable group of. Christian leaders on disarmament, security and kindred subject4. And for a good reason. The first draft discussed by the group was, I understand, discarded as unsatisfactory. The Archbishop then prepared one himself and as soon as it was circulated a . prominent Free Church member of the group proposed that it be adopted without the change of a word. And it was.

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