The Middle East
Sir,—The request of the United States to “abide by U Thant’s appeal to forgo belligerence” comes two days after U Thant had deplored the gap between precept and practice of certain Western Powers. The formula for peace in Asia where, unilaterally, arms and humans are expendable, differs in a reversed situation where oil and waterways take precedence. Admittedly sovereign States are still reluctant to recognise that objective justice implies submission to Impartial adjudication, hut nearly twothirds of this century have passed since “the scrap of paper” incident in 1914 and the Balfour Declaration in 1917, and still the German philosophy of “the art of the possible” as a technique of government supplants democracy as a way of life. Christian democracy implies laws of Creator and creature, sacred and secular alike, the sanctity of human life, the priority of State insurance applied to life before property in war, and equality in value of vote in scientific politics to produce majority rule.— Yours, etc., WEST WIND. June 1, 1967.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31385, 2 June 1967, Page 8
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