CHRISTIAN STATESMANSHIP
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your readers will be profoundly grateful for your leader " Christian Statesmanship." They will also thank Lord Beaverbrook for the constructive close of his article on the building of Bridges of Peace.
The Spectator is the first of the great secular papers in this country to diagnose the disease from which the world is suffering, and to come out boldly into the open with -the remedy. Individual statesmen have had the courage to express their convictions, the President of the U.S.A. said to the Nation over the radio that there was no problem, Social, political or economic that would not melt away before the fire of a spiritual awakening." Lord Salisbury expressed the same conviction when speaking in the House of Lords he said that what was needed was " God-guided
personalities to _make God-guided nationalities to make a new world."
Tina is the lead for which the country is waiting, to which.- . youth as yet unidentified with any cause will give its allegiance: One of their number speaking for youth at the great dernon- stration of the Oxford Group n.csimbly-held. in the British Industries Fair, Castle BrnmWiCh, affirmed " We will go the whole way with any statesman; Bishop or leader who will go the whole way for God, but we will not wait for anything
less." . _ -
Is not this the lead for which the world is looking to this'. country 2 .Let me quote the ex-editor of a great Noniegian paper, Frederick Ramm : "We small nations look on England with adinhation and hope not because of your navy, army and air force, not because 25 per Cent. of the world's papule;- lion live behind the frontiers of your Empire, not because of the gold in the cellars of the Bank of England : but because we see you have begun to develop spiritual leaders wholly committed to God, who will listen to His voice in order to construct a new world order, with purilkation of social life, and to build it on the four great standards oi'jhe -Seiinnn on the Mount."
England is slow to awake, but when aroused she followi on to the end. Have we not here the final and most beneficent
contribution of the Empire to the world—afellowship,Free Peoples, the Human Race one family? It is the
Christian solution, the Kingdom of God on earth. No other solution is possible.Yours, Bredon Rectory, Tewkesbury. W. H. B. l'innuanu. '
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