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- fr Mn aca ny nate tet pe A ' | . _ . . 7 \) Aa : . ; , ). - ; . . : : wf ‘ -~a- ~- = their a.sed forces in the Orient in order to manuain their . _ control over strategic raw materials; their tariff policies; our | Oriental Exclusion Act branding the Japanese as an inferjor t ~. people and our stubborn refusal to initiate a policy of -reconcili- _ oo SO , i * ation in the Pacific by the tcpeal of this Act; our devious course j in recent years of selling war materials to Japan and at the same k ae . . time making loans to China—these and. simitar policies were i . ; = nt factors in bringing the Japanese military clique into power and _ bringing the present awful tragedy upon the peoples of Japan, America, and other lands. Repentance un the part of all nations ‘ is, we believe, the supreme need of this hour. ; - - We have no confidence that this war will help to advance or conserve our democracy of international security. It will post- pone rather than promote the building of an orderly and decent world, Indeed, with the entry of the United States into the war it becomes a veritable world war on a hitherto unprecedented scale, a war which threatens to drag on indefinitely and to en- gulf all peoples in nameless disaster. There are already alarm- a , . ing indications that even if at not too distant a date one side ur the other wins a fairly decisive victory, it will impuse a terrible revenge upon the vanquished on the, plea of forever stripping them of the power to do harm and that in the name of “peace” . and a “New Order” the victors will attempt to establish 2 world-embracing military tyranny. . Even if we could anticipate better results frem the waging - _ - of war, it would be impossible for us in good cunscience to pte- ee - , | ticipate in it, for to us all war involves, as the Oxford Euu- : menical Conference declared, “compulsory enmity, diabolical ; outrage against human personality, and a wanton disturtion of teuth, War is a particulae demonstration of the power of sin in the world and a defunce of the righteousness of God as revealed in Jesus Christ and Him Crucified.” . C3] r | 1 4 re SP rE . if { | \ i] i . 1 1 ‘as i i 1 i 1 i | ee ee