Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 2, No. 13 July 5, 1939
A Hold-Up
A Hold-Up
The regime of the present Communist Party supplanted Democracy in Russia with the overthrow of the Kerensky Government in 1917. The millenium was to sweep the world. A halt was soon called to the European Journey, for once the seductive promises had been promulgated, and the mob incited to violence as in Italy and Hungary; once popular government had been threatened, as was the German Republic in 1919 by Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, then the middle class generated an equally voilent reply to threatened spoliation and extinction. "Like cures like," and because the violence of Communism could only be staved off by an equally violent antidote, then Fascism, Nazism, or any other "-ism" that counters Communism, does not operate along lines or soft persuasion. Communism is cosmopolitan. International and anti-national, and has as its most distinctive slogan—"Workers of the world, unite." But the Nazis and the Fascists each glorify their races as special stud-farms of thoroughbreds. More differences than these could be outlined, but let us get on with washing-up, rather the dishing-up, for you are going to get all three on the one dish.