"Has the Church nothing to say on Vietnam?=--J.C.H. (Bristol) ."
The reply from Paul Oestreicher of the British Council of Churches in their publication Outlook to this reader rms as follows: "To be silent about the agony of the people of Vietnam is to condone the atrocities of a war which does not come near to being just. If Christians were aware of their role as peace= makers every MP would be submerged with protests at our Government's cowardly support of American policy. Having half-heartedly taken sides with Johnson posing as Goldwater, Harold Wilson still poses as a mediator. This is an insult to the intelligence of the electorate and an insult the electorate deserves. If the Government is defeated at the next election it will be because prices have risen, not because murder has been condoned, That brands us as the real culprits." He suggests then that the least we can do is to send money to the British Medical Aid for Vietnam Committee, and continues: "Through the Red Cross this will go to North Vietnam as well, where American bombs fall on hospitals and churches and not only on radar stations, "If your enemy hunger, feed himees' Enemy? Could any of the peasants of this crucified people be our enemies?" This appeared in the Sheffield edition of Outlook, which carries a letter from the Bishop of Sheffield as a sort of parish magazine for thediocese, for this month, Spetember, 1965.