Salient. An organ of student opinion at Victoria College Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 2, No. 7 May 3, 1939
God Defend New Zealand
God Defend New Zealand
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"It is probable that motorists travelling on the Hutt Road this morning wondered if something really serious had developed over-seas, as the carriers fully equipped with Bren guns and manned by soldiers in steel helmets, raced into the city for the parade."
—"Evening Post," April 13th 1939.
"We have this to be thankful for; the Government waited until Lent was over before announcing the 100 per cent, restriction on tinned fish."
—Report in "Dominion" April 27th 1939.
"Have you ever considered that if all reforms which show a conclusive and irresistible case were carried out, there would not be a single one of our social and political institutions left standing? Not one. The case against war is conclusive and irresistible. The case against sovereign nations which know no law and render war inevitable is conclusive and irresistible. The case against property, privilege, monopoly, unearned increment, production for individual profit, the mere living wage, the case against traditional religion, against all the medieval travesties of education, are each and all conclusive and irresistible.
—From "Europa in Limbo"—Robert Briffault.
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There are panegyrists of war, who say that without a periodical bleeding a race decays and loses its manhood. Experience is directly opposite to this shameless assertion. It is war that wastes a nation's wealth, [ unclear: ikes] Its industries ... and leaves' the puny, deformed and unmanly to breed the next generation.
—George Santyana.