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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 1, No. 6 April 13, 1938
Counted Out!
Counted Out!
- (a) Mr. Ugh, whose letter we published last week.
- (b) Mr. R. E. Jack.
- (c) Mr. J. C. White, who stated that if we received a better statement of his view, we need not print his letter.
- (d) "A large body of rationally-thinking students."
These gentlemen state that I am childish, unintelligent, insulting, immature, vindictive, politically onesided, no gentleman, and I possess appallingly bad taste.
And also I pour personal abuse on a gentleman whose views I disagree with, which, of course, Messrs. Ugh. Jack and White would never do.
Now, I admire Mr. Jack and Mr. white very much, and ever since I read Lowell Thomas's romance—pardon me, Mr. Jack, his truthful biography—I have greatly admired Count von Luckner. But though a less conscientious reporter might have glossed over the Count's faults—his childishness and conceit—honesty compelled me to state accurately what the Count said and what happened at the interview.
Mr. Jack's "sic's" are no doubt amusing in an arid, legal way, but as his second "sic" implies that I am a liar, and his third states definitely that I am not a gentleman. I shall refrain from comment.
Mr. Ugh would welcome a world ruled by England and Germany; but he should remember that the Count himself described graphically the plight of the millions of poor German subjects under foreign rule.
Mr. Jack objects to my description of the Count's manner of speech; as "The Dominion" referred to his gesticulations and emphasis, presumably he objects to the spitting.
Quite right, Mr. Jack—so did I!
—R.L.M.