CORRESPONDENTS' VIEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 90, 17 April 1941, Page 6

CORRESPONDENTS' VIEWS.

FREEDOM AND SACRIFICE. (To the Editor.) Hilaire Belloc, in "The Mercy Allah," pictures Mahmoud cross-ettmfa. by alternately jurapinr -m the witness-stool and returning to ik I -lace in the Court. This satire cum to mind when I read Mr. Bradv's demonstration of verbal gymnastics. He erects a windmill of his own mis rem sent at ions, and proceeds to with all the fervour of a Don Quixote. Here, for instance, is what I wrote in your issue of April 2: "He confers* with the word 'love' and continues to pay taxes which, if his theorisine 1* correct, contribute to hatred." here is your correspondent's "reply ; By paying taxes (I ain informed) 1 am contributing to hatred: Christ Mid taxes, and accordingly contributed to hatred—which is absurd." He i«nores my conditional clause. What can be done with a man who so deliberately misstates his opponent's case? You were pleased to head my last letter "A Straight Answer." Mr." Brady fails "to see any answer at all. Like" the head of Charles, the word "love" keeps emerging from the litter of your correspondent's, illogicalities. He cannot or will not. sec that love is not irreconcilable with the sternest and most saci ificial measures to oppose wronri doing. When challenged to state aa immediately practical alternative to I Britain's armed opposition to Xazi-ism, he bids ine cease defending' "militarism* and employ time more profitably ia attacking sin. That blessed wordmilitarism! Xot one of the sixty IH* who have gone from my church into the armed forces is a militarist in anise rise of the term. have gone to attack one of the most" heinous forms of sin which ever ravaged the earth The saving feature about Mr. Brady's fulminations w they vividly illustrate the Nalitr of the freedom which . jj, New Zealand. So long as our boys are victorious he may go on writing. ALEXANDER HODGE.