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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 2; No. 6 April 26, 1939

[introduction]

Congratulations, Mr. Perry, on the freedom which you So wish to preserve! At a meeting of the Defence League last week, pacifists who spoke contrary to the tone of the meeting were struck at with umbrellas by hysterical women.

We left the meeting in a spirit of better irony. Mr. Perry's Incessant recriminations about the Totalitarian states (and his faulty history), Mr. Reeve's hypocritical platitudes, and Mr. Lucky's beautiful sequel to "Our Nation's Story" (standard VI classic), were not entitled to arouse our admiration. But this crowning insult to freedom, while the speaker looked cynically on, this open indication that the Defence League resembled Fascism in a minor key, sickened us.