N.; From Professor John Vaizey Ii Sir: Tim Pat Coogan
(December di is entitled to his views and Pi obviously cares deeply. But I dic14!tf advocate torture . What I 'n1 was that the only answer w gunmen is torture. This is hisItt ally true. In the last major w uprising, led by de Valera SE 1922-3, over 300 people died, 111w shot by courts martial and prePl ly by mistake, and 11,000 Pee!te were interned by the Irish go'ei ment. Peace will come to Irelae,6: alas — only when the same CO
is followed. I
Oddly enough, to deal Mr Coogan's point about iminc,' ity, torture may be wrong (vAPP my own view) but it is not imn1C when used in support of the civi,P spiritual power. It was on basis that the Inquisition evi When I had tea with the then e1,01 of the Inquisition, the late CavePi Browne, we discussed this Y'C point. Since the IRA claim t9,1tv acting for Catholics it is a /11F relevant one. John _.,810", b3 Heathfield Terrace, London Vo
st From Mrs Pamela Gilbert
\Ai Sir: Mr Cosgrave's article Women's Lib (November 27) t.ne fair and reasonable, but surelm them he ignores the two esselt facts which affect every aspect cc women's education, ambitionsjre independence, and make talar 'equality' between the sexes,M only silly but also impossible. ' blinkered stupidity kills what PP virtue the movement could havLra; A woman is more closely tie'Ll her child than a man could ever 71 For nine months she carries; child within her, flesh of her and blood of her blood. She iSo servant of that child and 0`,.r.„ the twenty-four hour nurserieas the world can sever the phY5th emotional and mental links this experience forges. But a ; can father children without ,1 „ knowing they exist. Nor WI1 Co abortion make the woman, an equal; the moment she bee'l -" pregnant her whole che°r,, make-up changes and the elPF0-„ termination of this chfAi; whether by design or by ace' n" probably has a deeper effect .`,"'c her than medical science psychology at present realise re/ will be twenty years or 11
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)efore we can begin to see the I.esult of all the abortions today.
The second fact which intelligent Women must face is that they (grow old, sterile and unwanted far is;ooner than any man. A man of 3eventy can marry a girl of twenty IS.nd father more children, nor will the world think this particularly 'Strange. But a boy of twenty
!Would be revolted by the very idea rof marrying a sterile woman of ififty let alone seventy and the !world naturally agrees with him. :Procreation stops completely half .way through a woman's normal span of life. After that she must illearn to dream different dreams ;land accept that she is a different tsocial animal. But a man can
picontinue in the same pattern of !living until the day he dies. Until Women's Lib recognises and accepts these two facts and jitheir consequences, good and bad, the movement is built on large iquantities of shifting sand and its 6reasonable and just demands are submerged by its false foundations. When the noisy little tarts (that dates me, doesn't it!) of Women's Lib reach the change of life, as they must, they will be destroyed by their own unfulfilled potentials no matter how much
they think they have conquered the Omen's world; they will discover when it is too late that nothing can !r,turn the clock back. Unlike men ltwomen over fifty do not get a
second chance, they can only reap ill,krhat has already been sown — 1Ophysically, emotionally and men
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