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Salient: An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 12, No. 7, July 13th, 1949.

Hair Raising

Hair Raising

When is war aggressive? And when is it defensive? These questions puzzled Mr. M. O'Brien, and the meeting, too, He wished to have the Manifesto amended to oppose aggressive war. Miss Martin, however, suggested that the difference was generally one of opinion. She might have pointed out that Hitler's thesis in 1939 was that he was defending Germany from encirclement—a peculiar kind of defensive war? She failed to convince Mr. Weblin, though, Mr. R. McDonald's remarks on the subject were clearer—he noted that many wars which had been supposed to have been aggressive were in fact defending against an economic attack. The distinction could not be drawn with any validity.

And the meeting finally got down to taking Mr, Goddard's sugestion; the amendment (Mr. M. O'Brien's) was put and lost (47 to 61) and the motion for the adoption of the Manifesto was carried.