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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 14, No. 4. April 26, 1951

Quo Vadis?

Quo Vadis?

One would expect the Peace Council to be one-third Communist on the basis of its national membership, and it was possible that some of the remainder were fellow-travellers. There was an atmosphere of downright honesty, and he found the Soviet writer Ilya Ehrenberg a great attraction. He gave devastating answers to American journalists and it was obvious that the Communists knew where they were going. (The audience was rather restive at this point).

Peace was blatantly displayed in Berlin—posters, photos of delegates, demonstrations of children, peace almost gave him a headache yet it was so genuine. It was useless to say that the East was preparing for war, and that the West must rearm. Looking at the other side, he found statistics to show that both Britain and Russia's armed forces were 1.6 per cent of the population, whereas America had over three million. (Looks a bit screwy to the writer. Gen. Marshall, 21/3/51, reported nearly 3 million). The delegatee received a book published in English by the North Koreans which reproduced captured documents showing all was not at fault on their side, and we did not know as much as we should about Korea.