U Thant
Sir, —Your leading article expresses the thankfulness we feel for U Thant’s decision, which can only be matched by broadening our own minds to consider the wellbeing of people everywhere. “Patriotism is not enough,” said Edith Cavell. "We must love one another or die,” writes the modem poet, Auden. The hideous poison of the bomb, spreading across boundaries
and curtains, clearly shows that we live or die together. Family wellbeing is best served by creative effort—the opposite from destroying or killing—by sharing resources, in which we may learn from communism, and in making self-sacrificing decisions like U Thant’s.—Yours, etc., N. BECK. December 6, 1966.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31236, 7 December 1966, Page 20
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106U Thant Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31236, 7 December 1966, Page 20
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