National Morality

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31449, 16 August 1967, Page 16

National Morality

Sir, —Your world’s news page today moves me to urge support for those “academics, artists, writers and clergy” who marched in Sydney. Conscience compels one to say or do something after reading R. W. Apple’s statement “Not Up to Hopes.”— Yours, etc., (Mrs) NELLE BECK. August 15, 1967.

Sir, —Recent public statements by the Rev. D. M. Taylor and the National Council of Churches on Civil Liberties, the licensing laws, and on Government policy on Vietnam have been timely and forthright In the main they express what the average man in the street feels to be a sane and morally defensible point of view. A great many people of the middle and older generations welcome these statements as evidence that Christianity can be made meaningful in this increasingly barbaric twentieth century. Similarly, Sir Edmund Hillary’s unexpected protest against the deviousness of politicians was bang on target. Many are still chuckling at the response he got. Cheers also for Colonel Low whose rational critique of Government policy on Vietnam provides further evidence that basic Kiwi decency and integrity are not confined and that when applied to domestic and foreign questions must prevail in the end.— Yours, etc., H. G. KILPATRICK. August 15, 1967.