The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-05-25
COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS

| Back of the unrelenting German ef-
forts to round up and intern former
members of the Netherlands armed
forces, is the Nazi fear of the Dutch
underground hand which will strike
behind the enemy lines on D-Day. Ac-
cording to 4 Hollanders who recently
escaped to England, 'the Germans are
using all kinds of subterfuges to lure
this underground army from it's hid
ing place. But the hidden patriots have
their Orders-they do not take them
from the Gestapo. The allied invasion
troops will be welcomed with the
greatest of help from this army and
from every loyal Hollander."
The size and disposition of the Meth
erland guerrilla force is carefully
guarded secret But it has reservoir
of thousands of former Dutch soldiers,
thousands of nOn-military Hollanders
who have become proficient In the art
of sabotage; and additional thousands
of students, both boys and girls, who
gave up scholastic careers rather than
sign a declaration of obedience to the
occupation authorities.
The enemy received a foretaste of
the guerrilla's striking power last
attacked war prisoners camp in
Flushing. They freed number of
British flyers who were about to be
transferred to Germany, and left 36
German soldiers lying dead in the
main streets of the town following a
bitter running gun fight.
The churches can exercise a decisive
role in creating a pattern of world or
der that will assure peaceful solutions
of differences between nations which
inevitably will arise when the task of
civilization once again
passes from the military to the civ
ilian, said John Foster Dulles in the
commencement address to the 1914
class of the Princeton Theological
Seminary.
Dulles, New York lawyer and chair |
man of the Commission on Just and |
Durable Peace, said that only after 30 |
years of experience with futility in |
affairs had he come to
recognize the relevancy of the Chris |
tian gospel to the practical solution of |
world problems.
Analysing the causes of the failure
If the Versailles peace conference and
,ther international diplomatic con
.laves in which he personally partici-
)ated he enumerated them-idOlatry,
blindness and evil emotion.
There was idolatry he said, in the
Practice of national representatives
)ersonifying their state as qliasi-gOd;
in considering their own ma
ional group TO be endowed with virtue
md all others with vice; blindness in
heir inability to see beyond what
erved their own shOrt-range material
interest and evil emotion in their
eadiness to become suspicious, re-
entful and angry
"And there was little emotion"
dulles added. Few were inspired by a
,Tedt NISIOn VI Al StISt VI uIlSSlOfl III |.
he world. They saw their tasks as
solated events in materialistic
world, rather than as elements in some
reat progression towards human
'etterment. They were ineffective be
ause they lacked a righteous faith"
The lessons learned from past mis-
axes and the adoption of Christian
principles point the way, Dulles said,
in which the churches and Christian
minister's like yourselves can deci- ..
lively aid the cause of world order.
BY and large your greatest contribu- ..
ion will be to implant the qualities of
oul and mind that Christ taught and
hen to get these qualities into actual
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