“My heart fears for the near future, because the spirit of Fascism is not dead in countries now striving to destroy the military fruit of it in others,” said the Rev H. Taylor Cape, Knightswood, Glasgow, in presenting the report on Christian Citizenship at the General Assembly of the United Free Church of Scotland in the Ebenezer Church, Leith, yesterday.
The Rev Colin Macdonald, Burntisland, the Moderator, was in the chair. Fascism, said Mr Cape, had become a mere catchword used by many who had little conception of its deep and sinister spiritual significance. It was the spirit of racial contempt and discrimination. In Germany it had led to the massacre of millions of Jews and the enslavement of conquered neighbours. It was all so horrible. But was not the colour-bar in the USA of the same spirit? In parts of Africa the exploitation and suppression of native peoples was even more shameful.
