To the Editor of the "Mokrh-Chuha Day News"
Sus.-Resitients. in Shanghai abhor the-undeclared war; they desire peace to prevail; they hope for mediation; they deplore over the refusal on the other side to listen to venture. Apparently some of them want to know tle reason why this war has come about and why it cannot be terminated: now:
Can they not sit quietly and reflect on tHe last part of your editorial for this morning, entitled "Confusion of Thought"? Do they ever realize that they themselves have been somehow all along responsible to the present situation they detest so much? Is their sense of responsibility not strig enough to. induce themselves to think out and act upon some adequate solution?
It is ineffectual as a is toward peace just to complain, to" protest, to wait and see. Let us quote Dr. C. A. Barbour, President of Brown University, who said in a sermon to the members of New York University on Sundby, June 10; 1984, that "the peace of the world is no soft and flabby thing. that shuts its eyes to moral distinctions and refuses moral obligations..... There is no genuine and lasting goodwill anywhere and there can be none unless at the heart of it glows the white light of righteousness, of fair dealing between man and man, between naga and nation. No nation can hold a true place and an honourable place in the world of mations if international greements are mocked at as scraps of paper" Wẹ ray; therefore ask: what can be expected from the violator of international agreements and. civilized" Human codes if the professed peace lover, wherever he be, shuts his eyes to. moral di: itinctions and refuses moral obligations? Irresponsibility or inertia breeds contempt: Now more urgently than ever, Shanghai residents. must fulfil their duties in every possible xay.
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