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Salient. Victoria University of Wellington Students' Newspaper. Volume 31, Number 20. September 3, 1968

Out Side Left

page 16

Out Side Left

Comment of senior police officer on pro-Czech demonstration last Monday: "First those students demonstrate against the Vietnam war, then they support the Czechs—just shows you how little intelligence they've got."

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This Week's selection from Hansard: "Yes, by jove, they are a hit puzzled, as well they might be, and a bit flabbergasted, but it is true the quotation was taken from one of these university papers, and it was said to the youth conference of the Labour Party. Of course, the member for Roskill would not have been at that It was said to the youth conference of the Labour Party this year, and it is true, and if members opposite contend otherwise let one of them stand up and make some constructive suggestion instead of moving these votes of no confidence which they have been doing all session."

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Talking of politics, did you notice that Labour now wants to become a National Party in every sense of the word—an industrial policy, anyway, said Warren ("Phil will fix it") Freer. "I suggest we in Parliament agree to a bi-partisan approach to the development of our future ... the time has come for both parties to hammer out a plan that will establish the basic pattern of minimum standards acceptable to all sections of the community." (Dominion, August 30.) Once both parties agree on a small thing like the "development of our future", we can of course still choose intelligently between them because they disagree on everything else.

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Outside Left, it must sadly be admitted, is no longer outside—it has been admitted to the inner sanctum. Remember that piece of doggerel we printed last term—some rude person pinned it up on Salient noticeboard as an example of the column's ineptitude—about T. Hill and "the spirit that they could not kill, goes on to compromise"? Well, would you believe, its been reprinted by both the People's Voice And New Zealand Monthly Review, and you can't get much closer to the dead left than that. So this poor waif of a columnist has been taken in from the cold.

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We Were going to spend most of this column on the Exec elections, but there seem to have been more important things to talk about. One piece of hard news, though: the new Exec is certain to amend the constitution to give Miss Victoria an automatic Exec portfolio, and save her all the mud-slinging and bitterness involved in actually contesting an election. Nobody has ever said Gerard Curry was chivalrous.