Recruiting And

Peace
Stimulating Discussion
The letter from Mgr. Dey, Bishop in Ordinary to H.M. Forces, and the leading article published in the Catholic Herald last week, have produced a heavy correspondence, showing an extraordinary divergence of views.
Mgr. Dey stated that " it is our duty with the rest of British citizens to be prepared to defend our country," and he went on to endorse the Government's appeal for recruits for the Territorial Army and Regular Forces.
Mrs. Gill writes a dignified and vigorous protest "as a mother and a grandmother."
Another correspondent, pointing out that no Party has ever favoured uni-lateral disarmament and that even so whole-hearted a supporter of collective security as Sir Alfred Zimmern disagreed with Lord Cecil in his propaganda for disarmament here, welcomes the bishop's appeal.
A third writer mildly challenges the leading article and suggests that one of its sentences was " impertinent in both senses " of the word,
A selection from the correspondence is given. on page 9.