CURRENT VIEWS AND COMMENTS.

Greymouth Evening Star, 22 March 1946, Page 4

CURRENT VIEWS AND COMMENTS.

The things happening (in East J^ro pe) are beyond everything that ever ka P p ®£®f iv am thinking of those who take> then lives out of despair. Thousands of coipses ai„ e driven into the sea by Elbe and Oder Thousands of corpses are hangm« 2? woods and in the neighbourhood of Berlin, thousands and ten thousands country roads by hunger and exhaustion From a letter written by a Protestant Pastor, quoted by the Bishop of Ohmhest p ur o D g ” preface to “The Human Needs of Europe, by the Rev. Henry Carter. :l: * * v

There are two ways of , to-day, which appear wholly contrad y and both of which are by the facts. One is to rejoice at all. things that have been salvaged from d fJr« ctl on and to appreciate the remarkable effort t national reconstruction which has been formed against tremendous odds liberation of the country. The other is to bemoan the catastrophic destruction not on material goods but also of moral values wh c has left France a very sick country-indeed sick in body, mind and soul. —George Soloveytchik; London Contemporary Review.