"WAR IS WRONG"
" However politically minded one may be, however patriotic maj be one's sentiments, I am certain that with the years comes and grows alid strengthens the belief that war is Wrong. What are you going to put in its place? HoW are international differences to be settled? There have always been wars, and there always will be war; men must defend their homes, their wives and their children. Oh, I know it all, I've heard it a million times, and though I cannot offer solutions, though I do not know sufficient to be ahle to pfove to these clever folk that war is unnecessary, yet I knOw that of all prayers the one which means most to us is : 1 Give peace in our time, O Lord.' War, cruelty, oppression— these Are the three terrible things which hold us all back, which make us all less certain, less able to look forward to the future with serenity. War is cruelty and brutality practised by nations instead of individuals. Instead of two men trying to hurt each other in a private quarrel, with one eye turned to the street corner' hecaUse the 'eopper' may appear at any moment and stop thom, a million men set to work to kill, in order to settle an international quarrel which scarcely any of them understand,,' — Mfes Naomi Jacob, _
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 79, 27 December 1937, Page 6
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