LET US HAVE PEACE
Sir, —"Son of a Soldier" ends a most f loyal letter by repeating that which gave offence to many in his previous one, and that is:. He states that all over the world at the present time men are stimulating the war menace. He makes no exception of the British Empire. In his first letter he concluded by referring to cadetship as cloaked militarism. No one .in the British Empire is anxious for war, and the cadet movement instils into our youth the spirit of its duty toward society and has received the approbation of His Majesty the King. I have not forgotten my history, as " Son of a Soldier" fears, and have a very clear remembrance of 50 years ago,, when Prince William of Prussia openly showed hi» dislike of England, as he thought that, being the son of Queen Victoria's eldest child, he should be heir to the throne of England as well as Germany. Would the result have been as satisfactory as what happened in 1603 P I have my doubts. The Church is doing its part well toward helping peace along, but we do not want the manhood of iNew Zealand to become narrow-chested, spectacled weaklings, but to continue to grow up second to none in the world. Greenhithe. R. G. Hughes.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22117, 24 May 1935, Page 14
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