Human relationships
Sir, — April of this year marked the anniversary of the birth of a great man, Albert Einstein, who said: “If the principles inherent in the great religions are divested of their pomp and ceremony and dress, what remains can cure all the ills of the human kind.” True. Those people who feel like G. A. Leicester (May 23) should stand and be counted. — Yours, etc., MARGARET MANNING. May 23, 1979 Sir, — The letter on human relations by G. A. Leicester (May 23), emphasising the disturbing threat to sound humanitarian attitudes in our everyday contact with our fellow human beings, is indeed the pattern of today’s lack of concern for the wellbeing of the young and the old in the community. Even close relatives are callous to the point of criminal neglect of an aged parent left alone, and frail through dedication to family needs. Nations and greed will destroy all decency which once was evident. and the material things which matter more than people in today’s scheme of possessions before populations will one day reap a bitter harvest. The appalling and callous treatment which is almost condoned by those countries not directly concerned with the killing of innocent victims gives the green light t'> all would-be aggression. —- Yours, etc., L. E. REID. May 23, 1979.
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