FRANCE AND THE RUHR. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—IC should like, in answer to Lady Norah Bentinck's letter, to point out that there is a very definite movement
at this time on the part of the Christian Churches to try to use their influence in bringing the present deplorable situation in Europe to an end.
In April of this year delegates representing twenty different countries, including France and Germany, were sent by their respective National Councils of the World Alliance for Promoting International Friendship through the Churches to Zurich, to meet together and to confer on what the Christian
Churches might do in the present emergency. May I be allowed to quote, in part, the resolution which was suggested and carried unanimously by this Conference ?
" The members of the Conference declare their conviction that the only way whereby Europe can escape from its present difficulties lies in applying the spirit of Christ to the problem with which it is confronted.
They reaffirm the declaration of the World Alliance that in the League of Nations, enlarged and improved, is to be found the most hopeful means of removing the danger of war, and that it should be the task of the Church to inspire among the people of every land enthusiasm for this great conception and willingness to labour for its complete realization."
—I am, Sir, &c., GWENnsEANE HILL,
Secretary, British Council, World Alliance.
4 The Sanctuary, Westminster, S.W.1.
Previous page
