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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 14, No. 7. June 25, 1951
Side by Side?
Side by Side?
The only answer to that policy lay in insistence on the peaceful co-existence of socialism and capitalism side by side, so that all the world could see which system could use atomic energy and the other resources of the earth most profitably for the peaceful betterment of mankind.
This was the theme of an address by James Winchester M.A.
"The USSR regards as fully acceptable the path of peaceful competition with capitalism." (Evening Post, 22.12.49).
The question of whether this view did not conflict with Lenin's "State and Revolution" was answered by statements that the Soviet Union had never provoked revolution outside her own borders—such policies went out with Trotski. Allegations of Soviet support to the Communists in the Chinese Civil War had been proven false. Judge Lowe had said there was no foreign money or orders given to the Australian Communists (Evening Post, 31.4.50).
If the people of any nation chose to move to socialism, that was their business. The Italian elections of 1948, events in Greece and France, made it apparent that US policy was to resist such changes to the utmost.
Mr. Matthews' talles on the World Peace Movement as a practicable way of forcing the peaceful co-existence of the two systems onto the world, will be reported in the next issue.
—C.B.