Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 29, No. 9. 1966.
Private statement
Private statement
A private statement alleging that Mr. Holyoake is a war criminal in terms of the Nuremburg decisions was printed alongside the protesters' "official" statement.
Alarmed by the outburst, the misconstructions and the "dear-sir-I-am-appalled" letters to the editor which followed, student association president John McGrath apologised for the bell-ringing and dissociated the association from the "war criminal" statement. McGrath said the association did not condone the third demonstration, but considered that the students involved had a right to make it.
Two of the demonstrators also wrote to the local dailies and apologised, "in so far as their protest was taken to be insulting." They reiterated the grounds on which the demonstration was not made, contained in their original statement but not printed by the papers.
• Letters—see page 10 for student views.