SANTA CLAUS ON SECOND THOUGHTS
Sir,-On second thoughts what might be termed the Atomic outlook does seem ominous enough to justify Major-General Brock Chisholm’s desire to do away with "Santa Claus and all that." If this is done the logic of abolishing childhood will be seen to be irresistible and, this being so, the next essential measure will be to abolish children. Thus ultimately we shall approach the painful necessity of abolishing ourselves. These reflections are disagreeable. It took the Victorians a century to realise that they were living in the Age of Steam. Fortunately they got it. We shall not be given a decade at most to wake up to the fact that we are in the Atomic Age. Are we going to awake to it?
F. L.
COMBS
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 341, 4 January 1946, Page 5
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131SANTA CLAUS ON SECOND THOUGHTS New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 341, 4 January 1946, Page 5
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