Nuclear weapons

Press, 20 March 1982, Page 14

Nuclear weapons

Sir.—Your editorial "A murmur of protest" ("The Press" March 18) amounts to a murmur of support for last Monday’s declaration of a "nuclear-weapon-free zone" by the Christchurch city and Lyttelton borough councils. 1 suppose one can and should be grateful for your murmur. But a 10l of people will be wanting much more from you before this whole business is through. It is very much unfinished business the world over. The other day the Mayor of Turin usefully observed: "It is not feasible that a balance of terror should generate peace, just as it is clear that a balance of shouting does not generate silence." The great debate is on: please continue, and improve, your participation in it. — Yours, etc., HAROLD EVANS. . March 19. 1982. Sir.-I wish to add my congratulations to all those people in the Christchurch area who really helped in making it a nuclear-weapon-free zone. It is indeed a ray of hope, of sanity, opposed to the insanity of all those who firmly adhere to a policy of "might is right"- and are quite willing to bury mankind to prove it. - Yours, etc:. P. DOR WARD. Ross. March 18. 1982.

Sir.-May 1. on behalf of my children and my grandchildren, express my gratitude to the Mayors and councillors of Christchurch and Lyttelton who have declared these areas nuclear-free zones. I pray that the idea will snowball, and that all the peoples of the Pacific region will follow suit and that the voice of their sanity maybe heard throughout the’world. The Russians and the Americans. if they must, will then have to fight their war closer to their own homelands.— Yours, etc.. S. JOYCE. March 16. 1982.