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

Never Ending

Never Ending.

And so it went on. Why did we fight the Peninsular War? Where is Gibraltar to-day? Where was New Zealand's navy in the crisis? Are we going to let Anzac down? Such cryptic and incomprehensible questions were a feature of the speaker's policy of appealing to national pride and prejudice. He repeated the things the papers repeat, day by day, and hour by hour. Never the other side—never a stain on ourselves—never a treaty that could never be kept! But defence! Arms! Recruits! Women and Red Cross! Soldiers! and we shall add, Blood and Bayonets!

"I am not a war-monger," said Mr. Perry.