CHURCH AND STATE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27166, 23 August 1949, Page 6

CHURCH AND STATE

Sir, quibbling in saying that Monsignor Sheen’s statement was a matter of direction. The original correspondent, D. G. A and “ Ex-Protestant ” have carefully avoided anv reference to the journal which hoped for a Hitler victory in July. 1941. It is not the prerogative of the Defence Department to say who they will reject or accept on religious grounds if physically fit. Mr Fraser’s dictum was, “ If a country was good enough to live in it was good enough to fight for. Qf course. Mr Fraser, with his yes-men. can make a volte face that would make a whirling dervish a mere tyro. I ask txProtestant ” not to equivocate and answer a plain Question: Have sectarian teachers anv more right to exemption than those of'the State schools? “Ex-Protestant is shutting his eyes to the fact that th 3 Vatican now. since the Lateran treaty with Mussolini is a temporal State with accredited ambassadors from other countries. and, therefore, just as liable to criticism.—l am, etc., Henry Hadit.