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Salient.The Newspaper of Victoria University College. Vol. 19, No. 4. April 6, 1955

Fear of A-Bomb

Fear of A-Bomb

Miss Smith also touched generally on the problems of the other lands in the sea and emphasised the "Justifiable" fears of the South-East Asian peoples. "They fear the atomic bomb, and think that it was first used upon Asia because they were only Asiatics, and it did not matter if a few of them were killed. Above all they wish for freedom and independence from colonial powers. "This was the reason for the peoples of South East Asia being wary of organisation like Seato. Of its members the United States. Great Britain. France. Australia, New Zealand, and the Phililplnes were "colonial powers or linked to colonial powers," Pakistan was "governed by a repressive dictatorship" and Thailand was "another corrupt 'musical-comedy' state."

"The peoples of South East Asia," concluded Miss Smith, "regard America's interest in their lands as an attempt to keep the area for their own capitalistic exploitation, and to this end they are using what we know as the 'Red Bogy' to excuse their exploitation."

There was no time for questions and the meeting concluded at 1 p.m.