Rewi Alley

Sir,—I appreciate very much your opening words "In the Red" in the issue of March 14, indicating that Salient, 1960 is shiveringly blue. I recall that Lord Cobham once said that we are engaged in a war of Ideas and losing it would be as fatal as losing a shooting war. No doubt students have Lord Cobham's saying in mind, Just as your reporter S.O'R had when listening to Rewi Alley's lecture.

I do not believe Victoria's Interest in Asia to be lacking, but Victoria's students were wise not to waste their precious time listening to Alley's propaganda for the Chinese Communists. As a Chinese student in this University, I wish to point out that Alley has been trying to give us a Communist history of modern China over the past 30 years.

Please find enclosed herewith a copy of An Open Letter which the Chinese Consul General in Wellington, Dr. Daniel Y. T. Lew, has addressed to Rewi Alley, and which was recently published in the Christchurch daily newspapers.

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