DR. RHEE
Sir, —Dr. Mclntyre, pastor of the Bible, Presbyterian Church of Collingwood, New Jersey, United States, expatiated at length on the virtues of Dr. Syngman Rhee as the guardian of private enterprise in Korea. It might have been appropriate for the pastor to have included Chiang Kai-shek in the eulogy. Memory recalls when such opponents of communism as Hitler. Mussolini and spokesmen of free enterprise (with the gloves off) were particularly voluble in their condemnation of any measure calculated to disturb the mental equilibrium of custodians of high finance. The worthy pastor’s suggestion that “the most effective antidote to communism is the word of God” is preceded by the stereotyped, time-honoured allusion to the “balance of power and strength of the Free World.” The link-up of the two postulations constitutes a good basis for studying the inherent contradiction embodied in Church, plus State. —Yours, etc., D.H.C. July 13, 1953.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27091, 14 July 1953, Page 3
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