LORD MONTGOMERY’S VISIT

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25246, 26 July 1947, Page 3

LORD MONTGOMERY’S VISIT

Sir, —I am grateful to Mr Brundall for giving me a good laugh. Others of your readers will see the humour of his assertion that ideas I advocated were put into practice in the interwar years. For many years before this war I urged with a tiny, but steady voice that the principles and practices being followed in international affairs were making war inevitable. Modern wars result, in one sense, because men, while they have created a material environment in which they are thrust together into mutual interdependence, cling to the attitudes of mind which prevent the growth of the world organisation made necessary by that interdependence. Our first duty to the 'children, therefore, is to engender attitudes of mind which will make possible the emergence of the world society.—Yours, etc., L. A. EFFORD. July 24, 1947. Sir, —May hearty agreement be ’expressed with Lord Montgomery and with Mr Douglas Creswell regarding tired children. Modern scientific education fills the child’s head with information as to what food is made of, and what is best to eat, and proceeds to fill its stomach with devitalised rubbish, lacking the necessary nourishment to keep the body and mind fit and alert. —Yours, etc. TIRED, TOO. July 25, 1947.