Thomas Merton Center

Merton Correspondence:

The "Commonweal, to the editors of the" file

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1962/March/no-day (#01)

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Type:  transcript - Transcript copy of a letter, i.e., re-typed or re-written after original.

To/From:  from Merton to "Commonweal, to the editors of the"-->

# of pages:  3

Published in:  Witness to Freedom

First Lines:  "I admit that living in a monastery, as I have done for many years now, I am not in an ideal position"

Contents:  [Cold War Letters #49, published in Commonweal 1962/04/20] defends freedom to speak against the threat of nuclear war - reasonable to believe that a preemptive first strike could become US strategy / statements by popes and bishops against such means - "Meditations on a dangerous book, the Bible"

Language:  English

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Unique identifier:  Section A- "Commonweal, to the editors of the:"    1962/March/no-day? (#01)