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Salient: An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 12, No. 8, July 27th, 1949.

Never Fear

Never Fear

The Editorial is devoted solely to the Conscription issue. It is a statement of attitude rather than a reasoned case, and while no doubt many "Hilltop" readers will agree with it, few others, I imagine, will be convinced unless their sympathy already lies with "peace-at-all-cost-makers. It is as well that the initial nervousness felt by the Editorial committee in writing "an apparently political editorial" was overcome. No contemporary literary paper can hope to survive unless it is prepared to recognise that virtually every significant human problem is either manifest in politics, or has some political implication.

"Hilltop" has printed a talk by Peter Munz previously given at VUC on "An Idea of History." This is a well-argued case for a positive suplicism with the concomitant values said to arise oue of such a faith. Two other talks are also printed. James K. Baxter's article on "Why Writers Stop Writing," good as far as it goes, is brief and fragmentary; the same may be said to a less extent for the extracts from Professor Miles' talk on Hopkins. Either article could have been elaborated so as to preserve something more than a mere outline. Space, of course, sets definite limitations, but as a matter of policy it would seem preferable for the editor to print longer articles in full, and less of them if need be.