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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Vol. 35. No. 13. 14 June 1972

S.A.L.LY

S.A.L.LY

Sir,

As Ian Powell seems to want every contributor to Salient, who does not record facts the way the Socialist Action League likes them, to sign their names; I confess that I wrote the news item Trots Walkout in the May 31 issue.

Mr Powell thinks that what I wrote was a smear. I could have pointed out that the walkout looked very much like a carefully pre-arranged effort on the part of the S.A.L. but I didn't. If the non-S.A.L. people who left with Mr Powell and his mates weren't supporters of the S.A.L. position I would like to know what they were doing walking out. Certainly not supporting the majority position at the C.O.V. meeting, eh Mr Powell.

I am impressed by the way Mr Powell interprets any reporting the S.A.L. dislikes as a smear 'against the radical and antiwar movement in Wellington. Its that sort of arrogance which produced both the walkout and the split in the antiwar movement.

Peter Franks.