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Salient: An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 12, No. 1, February 23rd, 1949.

How the Press Functions

How the Press Functions

As a man who has been about and can supply the Press with what being far from a leftist, it would regard as good copy, Mr. Sullivan is almost sure to know how it functions. He would then most likely know that, in spite of the claim at a recent commission of inquiry of public-spirited devotion to its duty, and of a tiptoe anxiety not to keep the public waiting a single unforgiving minute, it would let his statement go forth without dreaming of giving those officially called upon to clear the good name of the Congress a chance to simultaneously refute it. In doing this, Mr. Sullivan seems to me, perhaps because of the company he was keeping, to have struck a regrettable low.

I can only hope in conclusion that the N.Z.U.S.A. will leave no stone unturned to catch up on the grossly unfair handicap it has, through no fault of its own, had to accept in this matter.

F. L. Combs.

(We understand that at a special meeting of the Congress Management Committee field since this article was written, Mr. Sullivan was asked by a unanimous vote to either make a public correction of his calamitous statement, or else resign from the Committee.—Ed)