PRAYERS FOR PEACE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22210, 10 September 1935, Page 13

PRAYERS FOR PEACE

Sir, —We do not wish to bo involved in further discussion with Archdeacon Mac Murray, but wo cannot admit his right to close the controversy by charging us with untruth. He says:—"l e wrote not one syllable against the apr peal for prayer." If ho means by that - that we accused him of opposition to V prayer, ho has misread our statements. 1 We believed, and still think, that he 2 attached paramount importance to 0 armaments. The point at issue with us t was his unsympathetic reception of the k appeal. Instead of accepting it in tho " spirit in which it was treated by Archly bishop O'Shea, he straight away published a criticism of the request; he ® went on later to refer to people he called "pacifists"; he disclosed strong r hostility to the League of Nations 0 Union Now ho reverts to the real 1 purport of tho appeal and would lead 3 people to believe that our answers to his various assertions were accusations that he was opposed to prayer. The suggestion is absurd. C. E. Archibald, Secretary, League of Nations Union.