RE ‘ST George was foreign’, of April 30 from Martin Webb. He writes: ‘Jennifer Morel, a pacifist, wrote this to the Imperial War Museum (date unknown), “The world is my country. I look forward to the day when there will be no frontiers. That’s my ideal world. The men and women of the world are my brothers and sisters. That’s the way I look at it. And there is no class, colour or creed anywhere, no divisions at all. If I have any patriotism, then it is to the world and to the people in it, not to one country.”
Jennifer Morel, as far as I know, lived during the 30s/40s and seems to have been a rather naive woman. Today is a totally different world.
With new housing estates mushrooming, destruction of the shrinking countryside, green spaces, the lungs, being nibbled away; a world where I suspect she’d have quickly changed her mind! What with one half of the world already living here, and the other half queuing up to come here, she’d most certainly have changed her mind!
JEFF ADAMS Bloomsbury Swindon
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