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Salient. The Newspaper of Victoria University College. Vol. 19, No. 5. May 5, 1955

[Introduction]

Having been accused of "smear tactics" and of uttering "hosts of errors" and things which are "grossly untrue", I feel called upon to reply to Mr O'Brien's article in Salient of April 6.

IDS emerges from Mr. O'Brien's assault as little scathed as it did from his earlier assault at Curous Cove. On that occasion, his audience responded by carrying a resolution in favour of closer liaison with IUS.

Firstly, Mr. O'Brien defends CoSec on the grounds that it is not really pro-imperialist, because it passes resolutions in favour of "moral support" for students fighting for national independence. X never denied that Co-Sec did pass such resolutions. I said, in fact, that Co-Sec members agreed to similar sentiments being expressed in the preamble to the IUS Constitution which they helped to draft. What I did deny is that these folk are in favour of putting such sentiments into practice. I suggested that it was just because IUS was so "political" as to want to put them into practice, that these folk led the secession from IUS, and the formation of Co-Sec.