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Left Out Side

You Don't of course read either in the daily papers, the Committee on Vietnam publications or anywhere else about this big split in the Auckland anti-war movement between the Peace Committee on Vietnam and the Auckland Council on Vietnam-which is why I'm telling you now. The Auckland Council expelled the University Vietnam Committee, the Progressive Youth Movement and the Peace Committee from its conclaves for organising independent demonstrations on the same day as the Council's, Now the Council has issued a magazine Views On Vietnam which is on about how pro-Communist the Peace Committee is, and how no one will work with it unless they can trust its motives. Compared with this, Wellington left wing politics are pretty dull.

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Which reminds me-it's nice to have this visit from President Park, establish good relations with South Korea and all that jazz. But if the South Koreans are that interested, why don't they have an Embassy or Consulate, or some such in Wellington? (or New Zealand something in Seoul?) Some consulate must have prepared the way for good old Chung Hee Park and it was probably either the Americans or the Taiwanese. But is surely would save everyone concerned a lot of trouble if South Korea had a simpler way of communicating with us than sending its President over. Or maybe behind all the protocol everybody's still wonderding why he bothered to come-perhaps his daughter wanted a trip overseas.

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My Stockbroker tells me the Billing-Bromby affair may indicate an attempt to ward off a 'Truth' takeover bid for the 'Sunday Times'.

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Everybody knows, of course, about how the Chinese smuggled the Asian flu virus disguised as plastic-coated editions of the Thoughts of Chairman Mao (yes, that's why there's that Mao picture above Doug While's desk-a symbol of the Great White Virus, the answer to the Yellow Peril). But not everybody knows how the Security Service smuggled it out again in President Park's baggage. And then people complain that they don't know what the Security Force does?

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As If people didn't know anyway there'd only be 20 members of the Communist Party if there were no Security cops.