PEACE CAMPAIGN

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26396, 14 April 1951, Page 3

PEACE CAMPAIGN

Sir,—ln a divided world, two ways of keeping the peace are open. A single power may so arm itself that it can impose peace by domination: but the cost in lower living standards can only be extorted from a people roused to fear or by ceaseless propaganda, and by curtailing freedom of speech. History shows the result: arms race, and eventual war. The other way is bv agreement, which in the nature of thin»s cannot fully please everyone, but which gives time for slower forces to work towards endurin’ stability. Obviously the people with whom to seek agreement are our alleged enemies. Since the U.S.S.R. and her allies are continually being so described (even to trainees in military cam’), then the'on’v peace movement with practical value is one in which these peonies share. Dean Chandler has the wisdom to perceive this, and the courage to act accordingly.— Youj's, etc., . . . ELSIE LOCKE. April 11, 1951.

Sir,—l do not wish to enter into a controversy with “Laus Deo.” but would like to give the context from which “The Press” report of Dean Chandler’s words was takrn. In pleading the futility of another war and suggesting that differing ideologies could live peaceably side bv side as the Roman Catholics and Protestants do to-dav after their bitter conflicts in the Middle Ages. Dean Chandler vroc»eded to the nrobable results of another war quoted by ‘‘Laus Deo.*— Yours, etc., • THE WHOLE TRUTH. | April 13, 1951.