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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 28, No. 10. 1965.

Others Act

Others Act

Committees similar to ours were formed in Auckland. Palmers ton North, Nelson. Christchurch and Dunedin. We kept informal contact, sending pamphlets, and trying to co-ordinate activities, such as the call for a referendum, a sort of last-ditch stand before Cabinet's final decision to send troops. This decision, made on Monday (May 24), was not announced until Thursday, the 27th.

It has not changed our resolve. We maintained a vigil on Parliament steps until the mass protest meeting in Parliament grounds on Tuesday, June 1st. This type of activity may not change anything, but it redeems a bad conscience, and it might show some of our near neighbours in the Third World that not all New Zealanders are willing to murder for the sake of so-called Freedom, under the cloak of military dictatorship in South Vietnam.