THE PROBLEM OF PEACE
Sir,—Sir Winston Churchill, Mr Attlee and Dr. Garbett Fisher say Amen to the hydrogen bomb. The military, the politicians and the Church are an unholy trinity of worshippers of war. This “peaceful” society of ours is organised for war. About half the total number of scientists in the United States are engaged on work for war purposes. We maintain in our midst a body of men and women who make a living from killing and training for killing. How many working people earn their livelihood through making available the means and instruments for killing people they have never seen? There are war profiteers in every stratum in peace time. People who accept war seem to be possessed of dead souls even before
their bodies are destroyed. All this is outrageous. Still, hope lies first and foremost in the individual’s resistance to war, in the assertion of the right to live. —Yours, etc., NO MORE WAR PREPARATIONS. [This correspondence is now closed. —Ed., “The Press.”]
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27614, 22 March 1955, Page 10
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