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Salient: Victoria University Students' Newspaper. Vol. 24, No. 11. 1961

Better Red Than Dead?

Better Red Than Dead?

Sir,—In your report on the debate "Better Red than Dead?" you have summarised my words as 'He appealed for the West to be calm and to maintain peace until the intellectuals on the other side of the Iron Curtain could liberalise Communist thought." I should like to offer the following alternative summary which I think is closer to the meaning of what I said: "He appealed for the West to be calm and firm for the lifetime of one or two generations, and to maintain peace until the many-sided struggle of the intellectuals behind the Iron Curtain against the powers that he succeeded in liberalising conditions there."

Yours truly,

P. G. Elkan.