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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 10, No. 3. April 2, 1947
[Introduction]
The most significant feature of the Debating Society's inaugural debate for 1947, on the subject "that American Intervention in the Near East will lead to war," was the unwillingness of any speaker on either side to attempt to justify the present Greek Government, or the sending of American military supplies to it. The opposition's main argument was the inability or unwillingness of any other power to go to war with America on the issue.
The debate was judged by a prominent ex-member of the Society, Mr. A. H. Scotney, who placed the speakers in the order Mr. O'Flynn, Mr. O'Brien, Mrs: Matthews, Mr. McCreary, Mr. Winchester. His comments on the conduct of the meeting were salutory, for he criticised the speakers for addressing remarks to individuals in the audience, and the audience for irrelevant and unmannerly interjections, and for their general noisiness and lack of consideration.