Salient: An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 11, No. 10, August 18th, 1948

Red Herring

Red Herring

Mr. Lyons spoke forcibly against the use of the Red Bogey. He had faith in the United Nations, and sought a conscription issue as a question of whether, we were citizens first of New Zealand or the world. In a world which was attempting to put a solution to its problems through internationalism, narrow nationalistic moves like this could only be regarded as sabotage.

Immediately Mr. Lyons sat down the Red Bogey was raised. Mr. Thornton quoted "Pravda" (1928) to prove that the Russians were armed to the teeth, and supported this by proving that democracy in Canada was being undermined by Russian spies.

Mr. Milburn (again): "Now is the time, to say yea or nay . . . there is no force in a compromise." He suggested that Mr. Temm was still free to volunteer.

The Amendment was then put and lost by 38-81.