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PERTH, WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 13,
1946.
Box A35, G.P.O., Perth.
SEVENTY-THIRD YEAR
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Why Ireland Sought Admission to U.N.O. Holy Father Addresses
To Ensure to Men Freedom to Live, Work and Worship God
Medical Profession Grave Responsibility to Society
bitterly Early last year a medical conC,en we, who fought against paying what we regard- ference of Allied service medical imposts levelled as unjustly ed and as between the British and our- specialists was held in Rome selves, be utterly neutral when the doctors who attended it were Ireland will enter the United Nations to play her part who the gigantic task of bestowing freedom to men and nations free- countries like Finland, Hungary, received by Pope Pius XII., the dom to live, work, and worship God as He intended that they Austria, are being ruined by of addressed them. The address has exactions, under brutal force, been reported verbatim by E. R. should." This was the high resolve with which Ireland applisd the Soviet Union? Surely Mr. Cullinan, who was present as a for admisison to U.N.O. Her application was refused. The ideals Norton and Corish the Deputies guest, and who states that the for which Ireland sought to work with the United Nations Organi- concerned) are not "middle of the Pope's words, in faultless Engsation are bravely expounded in the following extract from the roaders" looking neither to Left deep impression on or Right on such a question as lish, made a Dublin "Standard": the suppression of the Catholic re- all his hearers. the sides-in by both Dail Eireann has taken-tmani- some cases ligion which is the Faith of eighty The Pope first recalled the parmously-a decision far and away recent war, having been stripped per cent of the people of Lithu- able of the Good Samaritan (with the most grave in the history of of even their most meagre posses- ania, until lately a free nation? preserved for this State. The freely -elected sions, their people's food thieved Let us hasten to add that we do striking fitness representatives of the people of from them and their clothes torn not believe that that is their at- posterity in the gospel written by these Twenty-six Counties of Ire- from their backs, their religious be- titude. so, they Saint Luke, himself a doctor) as That being land have empowered the Gov- liefs subjected to harassment and should be careful not to say the illustrating the spirit' of prompt intelligentsia their to persecution, ernment to apply' for admission opposite, for it misrepresents not and unselfish devotion that had the United Nations Organisation and all potential leaders slaught- only themslves but the Irish characterised the profession of and to accept the obligations con- eted or taken into slavery, the workers who elected them and medicine throughout human histained in the San Francisco Charthe nation as a whole. tory. Alas for mankind if it had ter of June, 1945. What these The doctor was not handMoral Principles Will Se In- not! obligations are were put clearly ling inert matter, however price sisted On. to the Deputies by Mr. de Valera. His paWe think that this is an import- less, the Pope continued. The people of Ireland know very ant point. We have every con- tient was a human creature like have tended at times to turn sick little-and this they have in comfidence that the moral principle, himself, with a mission to fulfil, people into so many medical and mon with the people of every the principle of the rule of law even though humble, in human so- surgical cases or even series of other country-of the finer points so well set out in the Charter of ciety. The growth of social meAnd, moreover, he had a cases. 0f the constitution and working the United Nations, will be in- rendezvous with eternity. dicine has led to some legislative of ''the United Nations" as the on Irish sisted by the representaworld-wide body is now to be calland much planning for tive-most certainly if the Irish "Precious creature of God's love activity ed. Many of them will have the future, but not always with representative Mr. is de Valeradust Spirit and and omnipotence! read the Charter, which is a magwhenever Ireland has an oppor- compounded to form an image of a, lively a regard for the things nificent document, "formed from tunity of raising her voice in the the Infinite, living in time and which fortify the spirit as for the confluence of many streams which comfort, the body. As council of the Nations. headed towards a goal those of thought, including, of course, We regard this as every whit as space, yet that which flows in the broad Part of the Pope has said: "It is after all that lies beyond both! important as material interthe the man who is to he treated." and deep bed of Catholic tradiests ,involved in the decision of the created universe, yet destined tion." The least intelligent among (Prom Medical Journal of Austo share the glory and joy of the Parliament and the any action them will have seen at once the the Government may take to im- Creator, that man who places him- tralia.) appalling abyss that now yawns plement it. We hope and pray self in the care of a doctor is 111111111111HIMIIIIM1R11100101111111111111111141111.1111 between the phases of the Charthat there will not be another something more than nerves and ter and the practice of the prinwar. We are confident that, there tissues, blood and organs. And ciples therein laid down, will not be another war if justice The Irish people-or the great though a doctor is called in directis restored to the world. Failing majority for which the 'present that, we are equally certain that ly to heal the body, he must often Government can speak, as it has
Insistance on Moral Principles .
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there will be a war and, if words give advice, make decisions, forhave any meaning. we will not mulate principles that affect the he neutral in it because we have spirit of man and his eternal into engage- destiny. It is after all the man CAMERA They do not condone very hope of survival, not to say solemnly entered Charter. to lend whatever aid is de- who is to be treated, a man made what purports to be the applica- reconstruction, wrecked under the ments manded of us the out in carrying has temup of soul and body, who If Ireland sends guns of occuaying armies. tion of them. PORTRAITS of the decisions of the concert of a representative to the United interests but also eternal. and Catholic Point of nations. It is possible, in the- poral Nations as it sent Mr. de Valera The Irish View. and temporal interests his and as PERTH'S MODERN STUDIO. ory, that we might be asked to in the past to the League of NaWhen deputies, in the course of allot bases to, say, Soviet forces responsibility to family and socitions, he will go as a genuine reto fitful ety may be sacrificed not * * generally maintained about to make an attack on the a discussion presentative, appointed by higher than the Spain: that is, if the Soviets were fancies or desperate desires of pasGovernment freely elected bt a at a level much reports able to persuade the rest of the sion, so his eternal interests and Groups, Bridal, Child Studies, and necessarily brief press majority vote of the people. such civilised world that Spain was a into would indicate, fell never General Portraiture. Unlike some heads of Govern- doubtful phrases as forecasting threat to international peace and responsibility to God may be subordinated to any temporal will to -day, he ments in the world that Ireland in U.N. would be order. It is clear, then Only Address: advantage. actually be a citizen of the coun- "neither to the Left nor to the We are not entitled to assume profession 672 CENTRAL HAY STREET how the medical try he purports to represent. He Right, but keep strictly to the that that could not happen, but this will owe first allegiance to they left we con cherish the hope that the places its representatives squarely middle of the road," (entrance Council Avenue). country and not to some other themselves most surprisingly open world is still sane enough. in within the orbit of the moral If Ireland is admitted to misunderstanding. country. When two spite of all recent evidence to the order, to be governed in their ac* * * t' U.N. it will he Ireland that sits Labour deputies went out of their contrary, to exclude any such or tivity by its laws, Whether it acre in the person of her repre- way to emphasise this attitude, any comparable eventuality. The be a question of teaching or giving If it's a sentative, not the United States did they envisage the Irish repre- strong residuum of Christian faith in this our repre- sentative at the United Nations that underlies tall the apparent advice or prescribing a cure or or Britain. doctor a remedy, the applying sothe sentative will differ from taking part in any discussion on ineptitudes and opportunism of called Polish representative, or as questions of justice, whether be- States on both sides of the Atlan may not step outside the frontier Portrait, it's a good Portrait, himself is now proposed, the representa- tween nations or social groups? tic, is a very real force in the of morality, dissociating P,altic republics Can they imagine there being no world to-day. tives of those from the principles of ethics and which have ceased to exist as in- such thing as an Irish point of His vocation is noble, If there is to be law and order religion. dependent States. point Talopboaaa view. necessarily a Catholic L1118 and justice in the world, they will sublime, his responsibility to soci- M 1111 will (Ireland's representative Has not Ireland view's be saved and with them civilisa- ety is grave; but God will not of view? have a background of order, free- on such questions as the freedom tion, by Britain, America and the charity for his fail to bless him dom and the rule of law. In this of Poland? Can we advocate countries associated with them, and for his unstinting devoted we are luckier than some other that our people in North supported by the still powerful the alleviate the sufferings will beg admission countries who should have the opportunity by aid of those nations of the West, efforts to It MEAD, after having been ravaged-in free election to decide whether which have survived & six of his fellow man on earth. the they wish to remain in the Unit- years' holocaust. Ireland will is our most earnest prayer that FUNERAL DIRECTORS ed Kingdom of Great Britain and enter the United Nations to play this blessing may be granted to J. Northern Ireland, as at present her part, as a mother country you all adundantly from the loving 115 ALBANY ROAD, constituted, or to join the Irish with interests in many lands, in bounty of God." FIUME MT DUTCHER VICTORIA PA= State while, at the same time we the gigantic task of bestowing We agree with Cullinan that the HANNAN ST., KALGOORLIE remain indifferent as to whether freedom to men and nationsapare particularly CAJOWIG HIGHWAY, Pope's words 88 MEET PIAISTANA the people of Poland shad]] be freedom to live, and to worship EAST TIZISAMTLL T.L 111 free to elect the Government in God as he intended that they posite at the present time. The Ted. OS. medicine advances in scientific should Warsaw? so well spoken in the past on all matters pertaining to external affairs-accept the principles of the
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