Salient. An organ of student opinion at Victoria University, Wellington. Vol. 23. No. 7. Monday, August 8, 1960.
Tongue In Cheek?
Tongue In Cheek?
Sir,—The tragic situation in the Belgian Congo exposes the stupidity of this now universal attitude of misguided liberalism towards backward peoples who, taking advantage of their numbers, are striving to govern themselves and their native lands.
When one considers the high level of education and social welfare which Belgium has given so generously to the once ignorant black man of the Congo, the magnanimous re-direction of the enormous wealth she has extracted from the area for the preparation of these peoples for self-government, the steady integration of non-whiles into the Congo's civil service to train them in administration; then the validity of my comments is self-evident.
The United Nations is treading dangerous ground In pandering to the democratic whims of the black man by sending African troops into the Congo. What is needed is a few crack European divisions to crush the disorder and re-establish While supremacy, sound social order and profits.
S. G. O'REGAN.