USURY
(To the Editor.) Sir, —"Albion Rover's" letter calls for some comment. He has, I fear, read a good deal into the statement which he criticises. There is no justification for his saying that the writer he refers to considers usury to be "the root evil of war." All that the statement asserts is that without usury one particular war would not have happened. Also, there is nothing in the statement on usury to indicate that the author of it "lost sight of the fact that, although there is sufficient room on the earth, we are living in a 'machine age' and the human races must adjust themselves to this age." I would gather from the statement that its author is very well aware of what is going 011 around us and in the world today. Also there is nothing in the statement on usury to indicate that any person thinks that our birthright should be given up without a struggle. "Albion Rover's" letter does not impress one as a piece of clear thinking —the statement on ysury docs. It is
quite beside the point to say that the meaning of the word usury should be altered; the question was asked, what' is usury? The question was not, what should usury be? The statement answered the question that was before the public.—l am, etc., SOCIAL STUDENT.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 141, 16 June 1936, Page 8
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226USURY Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 141, 16 June 1936, Page 8
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