PEACE SUNDAY
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Snit,—In thanking you for the article in your issue of November 21st, "Great Britain and a Better World," may I supplement what you say about international action for the observance of a Peace Sunday ? The World Alliance for International Friend- ship through the Churches—forgive its cumbrous if self- expressive title—at its Conference at Cambridge last September, at which the non-Roman Catholic Churches in thirty countries were represented, took action in recommending that one Sunday in Advent should be observed as Peace Sunday.
Extensive enquiries have shown that owing to differing
local conditions, the same Sunday cannot be observed every- where. But there is a good reason to believe that the recom- mendation will be very widely 'accepted and that in most of the Protestant Churches of Europe, it will be the second Sunday in Advent, and that in Great Britain and America the fourth Sunday will be celebrated as Peace Sunday.
It would take too much space here to discuss the further question which you raise, whether what has been hitherto known as Armistice Sunday should not be transformed into a universal Peace celebration, or perhaps into an International Friendship Sunday, but it is a matter which deserves careful consideration by all religious organizations which are working for world peace.—I am, Sir, &c., H. W. Fox,
1 Arundel Street, Hon. Secretary of the British London, W.C. 2. Council of the World Alliance.
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