Impartiality

"What's What" in Salient issue I labels W.A.Y. (World Assembly of Youth) as non-representative, right wing, no members from eastern or colonial countries. This organisation is now representative having been reconstituted at Instanbul. In contrast W.F.D.Y. is "militant . . . affiliates in every country . . . membership 60 million . . . V.U.C.S.A. was affiliated 1945-50 . . . Hq. Paris.

Main omissions about W.F.D.Y. were that "every country" excludes Yugoslavia (expelled 1949) and headquarters were Paris, until W.F.D.Y. was itself expelled recently. After one of the stormiest struggles at V.U.C. we disaffiliated last year leaving as the only affiliates in New Zealand the Student Labour Federation, the junior branch of the Communist Party and the Progressive Youth League.

Guide to bewildered freshers hardly helped bolster the Salient tradition of the editorial.