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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 27, No. 12. 1964.

Exec Signs de Gaulle Letter

Exec Signs de Gaulle Letter

Executive decided by a two-thirds majority to sign the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament's letter to de Gaulle (see box). Women's vice-president, Helen Sutch, pointed out that signing the letter was an action which did not associate the association with CND but only with the principle of opposition to French testing.

Men's vice-president. Tim Bertram spoke against the motion. He felt that the association did not exist for the benefit of CND. However, he admitted that he would have signed personally and when the motion looked like being lost by one vote he voted for it.

Dave Shand felt that except for a "few dull unimaginative conservatives" the majority of students would support the motion—at which National Club president and Executive secretary Alister Taylor pointed out that he was seconding the motion.

In favour of the motion were Sutch, Taylor. Robins, Bullock. Madgwick. Haira, Bertram, and Shand. Paxie and Cornwall had their dissent recorded and Robertson and Boldt abstained.