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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 4, No. 3. April 09, 1941

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Whether the attendance at last Friday's debate on the motion that "The Evils of Fascism Will be Reproduced Under a Communist System of Government" was due to an increased interest in debating and social questions or was more closely connected with the dance held afterwards, it was nevertheless gratifyingly large. Mr. O'Kane, who moved the motion and was placed first by the judge, described the principal evils of Fascism—the breaking down of the 'family, censorship, the secret police, etc., and endeavoured to prove that these were to be found in the Soviet Union as well as in the Fascist states. This moved Mr .Winchester, who opposed the motion, to such wrath that he used a word which has never, never, been heard from the platform of the Debating Society in the 41 years of its existence. However he and his seconder, Mr. Castle, brought forward a formidable array of facts (not to mention extracts from the Soviet Constitution) the general tenor of which was that there did exist certain differences between U.S.S.R. and Nazi Germany. Mr. Boyd (not Maurie), who seconded Mr. O'Kane, was full of sound and fury, but not of knowledge.

The speakers from the floor were highly entertaining but did not lend themselves to detailed description. Suffice to mention Mr. Hillyer's and Mr. Turner's incursions into dialectics, Mr. Collin's Trotskyism, and Mr. Stacey's simple proclamation of Fascist principles.

Who was it who so admired Mr. Cope's bea - u - tifully creased pants at a downtown milk-bar last week?

It is
a great pity
a very great pity indeed
that an harassed and overworked
editor
should have to descend
to writing this sort of tripe
to solicit literary contributions
for "Salient,"
a great pity,
a very great pity indeed.