Mr Nash’s Eastern Visit

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28514, 18 February 1958, Page 15

Mr Nash’s Eastern Visit

Sir, —Does “Individualist” seek resolution of the world’s sorrows in Mrs Menon’s last quoted sentence? An interesting question is, who is to undertake this process of education? And what would be the syllabus in which the nations will receive instruction? For the ways of peace are but interchange and rivalry in trade, in sport, in the contrivances of living, and achievements of art; in the thousand special interests of professional researchers, of hobbyists and amateurs; agreement to submit in all things to arbitration. In short, the free flood of creative impulse, everywhere latent .in human nature, potent to gird the world with integrating activity, jet possible only in conditions of universal justice. And what of these? The nations have differing answers, claiming truth, each alone for the prescription imaging its own interest, and from the rest requiring conformity, some indeed eager to impose it, even upon every inhabitant of earth.—Yours, etc., R.S. February 15, 1958.