NON-VIOLENCE AND ALL THAT.
Sir,-I cannot prevent "Surrealist" from twisting the facts of history to suit his own ends, so I will merely conclude by saying that it is the secular historian’s conception of Christianity that is elastic and accommodating and not mine. Nobody denies that there are grievous flaws in the Christian Churches to-day, but it still remains true that Christianity alone has the remedy for the world’s ills, and that nothing else has.
H. H
FOUNTAIN
(Tinwald).
Sir,-"Remember Amritsar's" statement that "the Indians are expected to fight and die in defence of the British Empire .. ." is a gross perversion. Surely Indians may be expected to fight in defence of India? If not, who should defend it, when it is gravely threatened? Indians fight incidentally for the Empire, in the sense that the whole embodies all the parts. Had it not been for the combined strength of the peoples comprising the Empire, can it be doubted that India and other individually weak members would long since have been victims of aggression, and in India’s case, of internal disorder as well? Are. such members to be left to their fate if attacked, or shall we all stand. together? India gets at least as much from the Empire as she gives. Let us not forget that the battle of Malaya and Java is also the battle of India, Australia and New Zealand, and when India, Australia and New Zealand fight in Libva or the East. thev fight for themselves.
REMEMBER MANCHUKUO AND SIAM
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 145, 2 April 1942, Page 4
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