Practical Help For Asia

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29829, 23 May 1962, Page 14

Practical Help For Asia

iNew Zeauino Prosr Association/

WELLINGTON. May 22. The reason why the West was losing the ideological battle in Asia was that the West was trying to fight the battle with military might when the emphasis should be on practical aid to allow Asians to live a human life, the Rev Father Paul Glynn. S.M.. said today. Father Glynn will return to Japan next week after six months tn New Zealand “In my area of one million people—Nara State. near Osaka—there is a very strong pro-Western feeling because of C.ORSO." Father Glynn said CORSO aid although not great in material figures, had had a profound psychological effect. The people of the area have strong feelings of respect and affection for New

Zealand because of C.O.R.S O “New Zealand coming third m the world for aid to countries in trouble gives Is 8d a person a year." he said "This is only small and shows how little the rest of the West is giving. Asians know tha America spends 40 times as much on military build-up as on aid. They resent this scale of values when more than half of Asia is hungry “It is my opinion." Father Glynn said, “that the Western world has not yet seri ously tried to solve Asia's poverty ’ Father Glynn speaks fluent Japanese and is the only Westemei tn his area He receives from C O R.S O a steady flow of supplies, mainly old clothing “I have been quite bewildered by questions concerning the sincerity of C.0.R.5.0.,”

he said. "1 can definitely say that lies are circulated about C.O.R.S O Goods don’t go to any black market and C.0.R.5.0 has absolutely no tie-up with Communism.” Commercial rag companies never collect for CORSO and not a penny from C 0.R.5.0 profits commercial rag collecting firms. The C.0.R.5.0. agent tn Japan is a brother of Father Glynn who says that al] C.0.R.5.0 goods go to the poor “CO R. 5.0., working through the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, needs more than anything money to solve ’he hunger problem.” he said

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