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

[Introduction]

In the "Dominion;" 21st June, appeared a write-up of Dewey's speech demanding "closer relationship, greater give and take (Marshall Plan?) and greater interdependence of the five still free continents—Western Europe, Africa, the Americas and Australia." Strange that in four out of these five free continents there is a colour problem.

Further, he say, "It is time we lifted our sights and viewed the world as a whole. We have concentrated on Europe while Asia has been going under, and the Communists have been busy working on Africa." At last someone has admitted, although in a reversed truth, that our Press's preoccupation with the Berlin blockade has been to cover up our statesmen's anxiety over troublesome natives in Africa and South-East Asia,

Directly under this report is one quoted from the "New Statesman and Nation" which describes the government in one of the above-named free continents—South Africa,