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Salient: An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 12, No. 6, June 24th, 1949.

Are They in Blinkers?

Are They in Blinkers?

Here Mr. Wadman's critic begins his descent from treading gently in the swamp into the mire of nonsense and presumption. Relying on an editorial by Mr. Combs which proved nothing of the sort he tries to make us certain that communists are not in blinkers by some abuse of Christianity. "In contradicition to evidence" (what evidence?) he says, "it has all the signs (what signs?) of being 90% myth" (for example?). This type of unproved assertion is an insult to Salient's readers. Is it the result of an overdose of Lenin? "All religious ideas are an unspeakable abomination" (Lenin on Religion).

The point in issue (the Blinkers) he noisily overlooks.

I invite the writer to attempt to arrange a subscription to three American magazines to be sent to readers in the Soviet Union and see how far the blinkers extend.