APPEAL TO WOMEN
Sir,-May I express my appreciation of your editorial "An Appeal to Women," which appears in the latest issue of The Listener? At the same time, however, I venture to suggest that everyone has to "face the music," as the following extract from a letter recently received from a one-time headmaster of one of our secondary schools, now principal of a college in Wales, points out: "The fact is," he writes, "that the world is in a terrible mess, and we are going to need every possible man to secure the future. There is abroad a very shallow interpretation of the issues of our age. The real fact is that there is a revolt all over the world against the principles of our Christian civilisation, and Germany being what it is, has broken out first, and worse of all, but don’t make any mistake about it, it is everywhere. It is in this country (Great Britain), and in New Zealand: the growth of irrationalism, irreligion, immorality, and all sorts of subversive ideas. All I want people to do is to have the courage to think and not become sheep led by the nose by the shallowest propaganda." I consider this a very excellent summary of our present trouble, especially in the light of Archdeacon Bullock’s address broadcast from St. Peter’s Church this evening, and it gives us a very clear idea of what we have to fight against at home as well as at the front.
M.
G.
. (Marton)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 211, 9 July 1943, Page 3
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251APPEAL TO WOMEN New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 211, 9 July 1943, Page 3
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