Love and Hate

Maoriland Worker, Volume 13, Issue 30, 25 July 1923, Page 9

Love and Hate

P. would seem then, . that love or our can flourish only through the tintre<l of other countries, and the TTi.T-usacre -;>£ those who sacrifice th-eni-setve;-* in rlefence of them. There is in this theory a ferocious absurdity, which repels mc to the very depths of my being. •NO! 1.,0VE 'OF MY" COUNTRY DORS NOT DEMAND THAT I SHIAIX Rt-Si'll AND SLAY THOSE NOBLE 'AND FATTKFLJL SOULS WHO ALSO T--OVF: TtIKIEI COU:NTRY--"l>ut rather tl p ;:;t I r.liould honour them, and .seek to unite myself with them- -FOR OUR r.CC.BiON GOOD. . . . There was no re: , son for war between the Western nnt;.;>»;■:. French. English, Germans >~-W'r :>.re all i.rotherf;, and do not hate. orf> another, The vvur-preachin.? press is wel-cC'L-ac-.i by a minority—A MINORITY J VFTALLY INTERESTED IN MAIN- , tALNfMG THE HATREDS—but our )per>pL?-s ask for Peace and luberty, aai th-at alone.- -—Romaiae Rollantl.