Salient: An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 11, No. 10, August 18th, 1948
Some Corrections
Some Corrections
The fun was expected to begin when Mrs. Bailey answered Miss Lamburd's newspaper statements. Unfortunately, by the time she had disposed of these, corrected sundry misstatements, misapprehensions and Miss Lamburd—all clinched home with such a bland smile—Miss Lamburd had little to say.
Mrs. Bailey corrected some of the impressions which Miss Lamburd had Confided to the "Dominion"; that 90 per cent. of the British delegation were Communists (327 Communists and 250 Young Conservatives out of 1244), that Benes had viewed the final parade (Gottwald, as Benes was in Switzerland ill), that the "Iron Curtain" prevented entry to eastern European countries (many reconstruction brigades from western Europe are working there; 22 youth delegations of all political colours have visited Russia; Americans are kept out of Yugoslavia, not by Tito but by the American Government.)
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"Mrs. Bailey has told us what we knew only partly."
Miss Lamburd declined to say that WFDY was in fact, communist-dominated, though she did say that the Young Conservatives were treated with scorn by the other delegates, and failed to get an adequate hearing. She pointed out however, that she was there unofficially, and couldn't know as much as official delegates. In answer to Mr. Milburn's grilling on WFDY policy, she could produce nothing to evidence Communist domination, though Mr. Milburn himself hammered home at the WFDY policy on conscription, which he thought might be partisan. The Exec. considered that WFDY should be asked to make a statement on this matter; Mr. C. Macleod read shaggy dog stories instead, to relieve the tedium of the discussion.
In answer to Miss McKenzie's question. Mrs. Bailey gave thumbnail sketches of the exec, personalities—M. Guy de Boisson, the President. Mrs. Hookman, Mr. Williams, Mr. Jones, Miss Daymond, secretaries. Though she had worked in WFDY's Paris Office, she hadn't met Mikhailov, the Russian member.