CHRISTIANS AND JEWS UNITED IN PEACE AIMS

Leaders of the Christian and Jewish faiths in the United States yesterday, Thursday, issued a severs-point declaration of peace aims calling upon all nations to uphold the rights of man in the post-war world. Thirty-eight Catholics, including archbishops and bishops, 45 Protestant leaders and 45 representatives of the Jewish faith signed this joint statement—the first to be issued in American history.
The document emphasises the need of an international organisation to ensure collective security, envisaging the use when necessary of adequate sanctions to enforce the law, It also deals with the rights of minorities, the redistribution of natural resources, and international interest in " the progress of undeveloped colonial or oppressed people towards political responsibility."
SEVEN POINTS The seven-point declaration states: (1) The organisation of a just peace depends upon practical recognition of the fact that not only individuals but also nations, States and international society arc subject to the sovereignty of God and to the moral law which comes from God.
(2) There must be an international declaration of human rights; the dignity of the human being must be vindicated by the positive action of Governments and international organ isations. " States as well as viduals must repudiate racial, religious or other discrimination which violates those rights."
(3) The rights of all peoples, subject to the good of an organised world community, must be safeguarded within the framework of collective security. The progress of undeveloped colonial or oppressed peoples towards political responsibility must be the object of international concern.
(4) The rights of ethnic, religious and cultural minorities to economic livelihood must be guaranteed. There must also be equal opportunity for educational and cultural development and to political equality.
(5) To maintain peace there must be an organisation of international institutions " which will (a) develop a body of international law, (b) guarantee the faithful fulfilment of international obligations and revise them when necessary, and (c) assure collective security by drastic limitation and continuing control of armaments, compulsory arbitration and adjudication of controversies and the use when necessary of adequate sanctions to enforce the law," (4) These must be international collaboration to assist all Slates to provide their citizens with an adequate etandard of living. This standard " must replace the present economic monopoly and exploitation of natural resources by privileged groups and States."
(7) A• just social order within each State must be achieved and steps taken to provide for the security of the family and the collaboration of all groups and classes in the interest of the common good.