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

Dollar Fingers

Dollar Fingers

And who has been maintaining this government? No one other than your old Uncle Sam. The Chinese people realize the reactionaries would be helpless without the support of the United States. Those who have so directly experienced American Imperialism, have no love for the diplomatic emanations of Washington, D.C. The first article in the 19 April China Digest is thus of especial interest.

Perhaps Victoria's Debating Society was right in deciding that the Atlantic Pact was not in the interests of world peace. For this article contains the statement of the democratic parties of China on 3rd April—signed by the representatives of eleven organizations, ranging from the liberal National Salvation Society to the rampant Communist Party. (And no punches pulled:) "If the power of money, which has for so long has kept the living standards of the Chinese people at starvation level, plunges the world into war, then it will find the combined might of the Chinese people against them."