EAST AND WEST
Sir--Mr. Peter Mann directs our thoughts to Communism as merely a set of ideas in contra-distinctiom to an interim dictatorship in practice. We should put right out of our minds (he implies) the cringing and mendacious teaching of history in the U.S.S.R., the debasement of all public expression of thought to the end that the unfortunate Russian people will worship the god of dialectical materialism, the mass murders in the Ukraine before, during and after World War II, the murder of the Poles at Katyn, the Siberian slave communities, the destruction of the kulaks, the impudent and unprecedented abuses of diplomatic hospitality in Canada, Britain, U.S.A., and elsewhere, the slanders and murders of priests and nuns in China, Korea and the satellite countries, the present disgusting persecution of the Jews, in short, the whole catalogue of crime that cries to Heaven for vengeance. . On the contrary, I think we should bear these things in mind and pray for the ‘unfortunate Russian people who do not deserve and never have deserved such "interim" rulers, and concerning ‘those "interim" ‘rulers we should say "Vouchsafe O Lord to repress their presumption by the power of Thy right hand,"
BY THEIR FRUITS ..
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 715, 27 March 1953, Page 5
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