Evening star., 1939-12-24
Protestant, Jewish
Leaders Invited
To See President
BY GARNETT d. HORNER.

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Of the Protestant and Jewish faiths
in a far-reaching Christmas move
for united expression" of common
Ideals for world peace.
The President announced he was
sending Myron c. Taylor to repre-
sent him at the Vatican and was
inviting the Protestant and Jewish
leaders to visit him frequently in
order to encourage a closer asso-
citation" among the seekers of peace
everywhere.
He declared his trust that all of
the churches of the world which
believe in a common God will throw
the great weight of their influence
into this great cause
Mr.. Taylor, retired steel magnate
and head of the Intergovernmental
Refugee Committee, is expected to
sail for Italy within some weeks"
the White House said. He will be
. 66 years old in January. He is not
a Catholic.
To Rank as Ambassador.
AS the Presidents representative
at the Vatican Mr.. Taylor will have
the rank of an ambassador and is
expected to draw an ambassador s
salary of SIT 500 year, although
officials emphasized that his ap-
pointment did not mean resump-
ton of formal diplomatic relations
with the Holy See. There have been
no such relations since 1867.
What was regarded as the most
far-reaching peace move Mr.. Roose-
welt has yet undertaken was dis
closed in almost identical letters
from the President to Pope Plus
XII: DR.. George A. Buttrick, presi-
dent of the Federal Council of the
Churches of Christ in America, as a
Protestant leader, and Rabbi Cyrus
Adler. president of the Jewish Theo-
logical Seminary of America,
leader of the Jewish faith.
The letters "suggested' that it
would give the President great
satisfaction" to send his personal
representative to the Pope and to
have DR.. Buttrick and DR.. Adler
visit him from time to time lin order
that our parallel endeavors for peace
and the alienation of suffering may
be assisted"
Need for United Expression.
when the time shall come for
the establishment of world
peace on a surer foundation. it is
of the utmost importance to hu-
manity and to religion that common
ideals shall have united expression
he wrote the three religious leaders.
THE world has created for it
self civilization capable of giving
to mankind security and peace
firmly set in the foundations of re-
ligious teachings" Mr.. Roosevelt de-
clared. Yet = civilization today
passes through war and travail"
He added that he believed the
worlds troubles today were a new
form of old conflicts out of which
"a rekindling of the inherent spir-
1tual spark in mankind" always had
brought back order and culture
and religion"
He said he took heart in remem-
bering that in a similar dark time
when nations walked dangerously
in the light of the fires they had
themselves kindled" - Isaiah first
prophesied the birth of Christ.
New Order May Be at Hand.
I'm that very moment he wrote
"a spiritual rebirth was foreseen-
q new day which was to loose the
captives and to consume the con-
querors in the fire of their own
kindling; and those who had taken
the sword were to perish by the
sword.
Because the tempo of all worldly
things has been so greatly accel-
Grated in these modern days we can
hope that the period of darkness
and destruction will be vastly
shorter than in the olden times.
"1n their hearts men decline to
accept, for long, the law Of destruc-
tion forced upon them by wielders
of brute force.
II believe that while statesmen
are considering new order of
things. the new order may be we'll
at hand. I believe that it is even
now being built. silently but in
evitably, in the hearts of the masses
whose voices are not heard, but
whose common faith will write the
final history of our time"
No Specific Peace Plan.
Mr.. Roosevelt made it plain he
did not have in mind now any
specific plan for bringing about
world peace.
In these present moments" he
wrote, no spiritual leader, no civil
leader can move forward on specific
plan to terminate destruction and
build anew. Yet the time for that
will surely come.
1t Is. therefore, my thought that
though no given action or given time
may now be prophesied. it is we'll
that we encourage a closer associa-
ton between those in every part of
the world-those in religion and
those in government-who have a
common purpose"
A reference in the Presidents
letter to migration of peoples that
may follow the war indicated one of