Motion of No-Confidence in the Executive.

Students:

Some of you may not have read the papers and you may wonder what this is all about.

Summarised, the position is this,

This required the approval of the Executive of the Students' Association.

Approval was given fcr the communication, but the Executive then passed a motion that a letter be sent to Prime Minister Mr. Gottwald, "congratulating Mr. Gottwald on the triumph of democracy in Czechoslovakia,"

You will note that the Executive passed the last motion - with four dissentients - on behalf of the student body - on behalf of you which means that they consider You are in favour of the present Communist regime in Czechoslovakia.

This serious action by the Executive leaves no course for democratically minded students to follow but to move a motion of noconfidence in the Executive and expressing disapproval of the contents of the communication to Mr. Gottwald.

Now this is where You Come in.

The meeting will be held in the Gymnasium or in Room C.3 on next Monday night, March 22, at 8 p.m.

Be there and be Early.

Absence through apathy means that you approve of helping the Executive to put another nail in the coffin of democracy in Czechoslovakia. Let us issue a warning to you who may be apathetic.

The question vitally concerns You, your future as a student, the future of our country and the future of democratically minded page 2 people throughout the world. We do not contend our own system is perfect, but we do consider it is infinitely better than the curse of communist dictatorship.

Let us emphasise that as each bastion of democracy falls, the time draws nearer when the devotees of the vile system, dressed up in the garb of humanitarianism and anti-Fascism - Fascism having come to mean anything opposed to Communism - could cripple this country; when it could happen that you would be forced not only into a mental straight-jacket like the Communist himself, but also into a physical straight-jacket from which there would be no escape, no appeal and no hope......

This University has a coterie of such representatives prepared to sell you to this diabolical system.

Are you prepared to do something about it?

Are you prepared to show that at least the light of democracy and freedom glows in this University and that you do not approve of that abysmal thuggery of purges, of foreign domination, terror, and denial of freedom that exists today in Czechoslovakia?

So be at the meeting early.

We are dealing with masters in organisation who will stop at nothing to gain their ends.

But we are sure that if the student body stirs itself from its complacency that it can end for all time the danger of the communist cancer in our University and help the community along the path of true progress instead of towards the slavery offered by our opponents.

Do not be dismayed at the prospect of voting your executive out of office. The machinery exists to maintain continuity of administration.

Issued on Behalf of the 26 Students Requesting Motion of No-Confidence.