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T H E K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S
The Christian can welcome every effort to prevent bitterness between individuals or religious groups. But his tolerance must never extend to approving false ideas. He can never have true fellowship with those who deny either the Word of God or the Person and redeeming work of the Son of God.—R oy L. L aurin .
so long as Christ was preached (Phil. 1: 15-18), he would not tolerate a departure from the truths o f the gospel. Here Paul was violently intolerant. He was adamant. He was generously liberal in his opinion about methods and manners, but very rigid and undeviating about matters of principle and the content of the message.
Views and Reviews of Current News By D AN GILBERT Washington, D.C., and San Diego, California
FLOP: Although on the surface a success, in so far as a formal accord has been ne gotiated, the frantic effort of Great Britain to line up Soviet Russia in a "stop Hitler" front is already being recognized as fore doomed to ultimate failure. Few observers think Stalin sincere; most of them look for an early “falling through” of the unstable scheme for a Russo-Franco-British tie-up. The London correspondent of Ken maga zine reports, despite the Soviet commitment to stand with Britain against Germany. “There are dark hints that the Russians are really in cahoots with Berlin, through the Red Army and the Reichs- wehr officers, and that any British se crets which are given the Russians in connection with a military alliance would be handed over to Germany.” In England there is felt the same reluctance as Russia feels to the Soviet-British alli ance: "There is still the most important kind of opposition to any real cooperation with the Russians—there will be a tempta tion to the last to renege on whatever kind of arrangement has to be concluded." Time magazine says that, in dickering with Britain and France, Stalin "has alter natives up his sleeve . . . One of these al ternatives has become the nightmare of western diplomacy: the growing possibility o f a Hitler~Stalin alliance." In a recently published book entitled The End o f Economic Man, Peter F. Drucker, famed Austrian economist now residing in America, expresses the view that Russia "has cleared the decks” for a Soviet-Ger man accord, and that Germany will soon be ready for it. He contends, “From every angle the alliance between Germany and Russia seems to be almost unavoidable. Only a war within the very near future could prevent it—1940 might perhaps be considered the latest date.” ALL EYES ABROAD: "W e have about reversed our traditional policy of ‘America First' to make it read ‘America Last,’ ” bitter ly commented a disgusted Senator recently as he observed that our own pressing prob lems are waxing worse and worse, while endless debate revolves around the nature and degree of our meddling in the affairs of foreign nations. It is not clear exactly when Congress will adjourn, but whenever the Congress men go home, they are certain to leave be hind virtually all of the domestic problems
which engaged their attention as they con vened last January. What moves they have made, and are making, toward the solution of our problems here at home have been makeshift, “stop-gap," fumbling, temporary, and inadequate. The great "needs of the hour” remain. Among these are: fair and equitable re vision of the Labor Relations or Wagner Act, sweeping adjustment of our lop-sided and burdensome tax structure, a determined effort in the direction of a balanced budget, a new and adequate agricultural set-up, amendment of the immigration and deporta tion laws to block loopholes, a new ap proach to the whole “relief problem,” and positive legislation to promote recovery. These problems have been largely ig nored, while "foreign policy" commands central attention. But with all the debate and rival proposals, it is unlikely that any definite formulation of foreign policy will result. It is not likely that the Neutrality Law will be changed to fit the Administra tion’s specifications. Our foreign policy will remain in a rather undefined and cha otic state, with the President continuing to push vigorously in one direction and Con gress continuing to hesitate. All Americans are acutely concerned about the European situation. But there seems little evidence that positive good is accomplished by permitting our concern over foreign affairs to distract us from the task of setting our own house in order. As one Representative has put it, “W e are still supposed to be the Congress of the United States, not that of the League of Nations.” NEW DEAL COURT CONTROL: De spite the failure of the attempt to "pack” the Supreme Court, the New Deal charac ter is firmly stamped on the federal judici ary. The addition of Mr. Justice Douglas to the Supreme Court meant that four of the nine judges are Roosevelt appointees. Few presidents have named so many judges to the federal bench. Out of a total of 249 judges now sitting in all United States courts, 111—nearly half—were named by President Roosevelt. Even if he retires from office at the con clusion of. his second term, it is more than likely that he will have had the opportu nity of appointing a clear majority of the federal judges. The President has appoint ed already 36 out of the 58 Circuit judges and 70 out of 182 District judges. Since he
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BRITISH ROYALTY EN ROUTE TO C A N A D A Aboard the liner "Empress of Australia" are pictured King George VI and Queen Elizabeth as they made their historic journey to Canada. This first North American visit of a crowned ruler of the British Commonwealth has im pressed many persons with the importance of the Western Hemisphere in British policy. Students of Bible prophecy are watching closely the European threat to London, once within the bounds of the ancient Roman Empire. has consistently followed his stated policy of appointing relatively young men to the federal judiciary, it is apparent that his ap pointees will overshadow the federal courts for probably the next two decades. Although it now seems to have been a rash and unnecessary move, the attempt to enlarge the Supreme Court was the most decisive act of this Administration. Ob servers can trace the fall of the New Deal in public favor to that fatal misstep. The blocking of key New Deal measures in Con gress could not have been effected had not public opinion been extensively alienated by the Court-pack plan, which forced a turning point in the whole course of “lib eralism” in America. It caused the setting in of the slow, but increasing, “swing to con servatism," now so apparent on all sides. RISING TIDE OF JUVENILE DELIN QUENCY: As should be well known to all students of our government, the city of Washington, District of Columbia, is di rectly under the control of Congress. In 1936, two committees of the House of Rep resentatives made a thorough investigation of the "teaching of communism in the pub lic schools of Washington, D.C.” Their investigation revealed that, according to the chairman of one of the committees, Mr. Blanton of Texas, "books advocating im- [Continued on page 247]
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