ONE WORLD OR NONE
Sir,--This letter.is to express appreciation of the warning note in your editorial column of The Listener for October 10. Without having read the scientists’ book One World or. None, some of us have read John Hersey’s Hiroshima and know that the up-to-date atomic bomb is 1000 times more’ powerful than that which took 100,000 lives in one minute in Japan. That we be spared the indescribable horror which future war must mean is surely the prayer of millions, yet the answer lies with man himself. Under the leadership of the scientist Einstein, he must insist upon the surrender of national authority to a supra-national authority, simply because "the existence of man as a civilised social being is at stake"
and according to Einstein "there-is;no other and no cheaper way out of -our present‘ situation." Therefore, I for one, write to my M.P. and Prime Minister, remembering the spiritwal significance in the words of Willidng, Blake, "Bring me my arrows of desire" and hoping the average man the world over will realise his own worth and power.
NELLE
BECK
(Christchurch).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 436, 31 October 1947, Page 5
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183ONE WORLD OR NONE New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 436, 31 October 1947, Page 5
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