Mao’s Health

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31085, 14 June 1966, Page 16

Mao’s Health

Sir, —Quoting T. M. Shaw: “Christian nations which stand for Christian brotherhood will no doubt by-pass war.” Mr Shaw could be gently reminded that to date, the socalled Christian nations have most assurably produced all the hellish means and methods for the pursuance of war and are most emphatically much more advanced in that direction than any Asians ever dreamt of. —Yours, etc., S. CASHION. June 13, 1966.

Sir, The postulations made by T. M. Shaw regarding China exemplify mental gymnastics in reverse, with resultant negativism. The allusion to “China’s adoption of a war economy,” with subsequent “enthusiasm for world domination,” invites the query as to when the urge for this war economy started. Presumably the correspondent infers the period when Kai-shek and company were bundled out of China into Taiwan in spite of efforts on the part of the real aspirant for world domination, the United States, to save his bacon. “Christianity,” the correspondent states, “stands for brotherhood, although in the .Scriptures war is not prohibited.” This can be paraphrased into the justification of war—all it entails. The enforcement of this nebulous “brotherhood” through lethal weapons out-Herods the old inquisitions, and brings them up to date with accepted concepts of justice in reverse.— Yours, etc., D.H.C. June 13, 1966.