Rewi Alley Represents New Zealand Students at I.U.S. Meeting

At the meeting of the Executive of the International Union of Students at Peking from April 24-28, the N.Z. Student Labour Federation was represented by Rewi Alley, world-famous New Zealand-born principal of the Shandan Industrial Co-operative School in Kansu.

When the IUS officers informed the NZSLF and the NZ University Students' Association, that they had the right to send obseryers, the latter body decided to take no action. NZSLF wrote at once to Rewi Alley, then in Peking on official business. Alley's reply arrived last week. "Thank you," he wrote, "for the honour you pay me in asking me to be your delegate." He consented, and congratulated the Federation on their progressive policy—better conditions of living and education for students here and all over the world, peace between nations. Remarking on the stand NZUSA Congress last January took over recognition of Chinn, he says: "It is excellent that you are taking the stand you are. The issue is so very important for so many millions of people everywhere, and all-important for little New Zealand."

Courtney Archer, another New Zealand member of the staff at Sandan, has also offered to maintain contact with the Chinese student movement until he returns to New Zealand shortly on a year's leave. "Max Wilkinson, the other New Zealander at present at Sandan, and I, were very interested indeed to hear that New Zealand students were active in support of world peace and the recognition of the People's Government of China by New Zealand. The New Zealand people are making a tragic mistake in allowing themselves to become firmly attached to the United States. New Zealand is a Pacific country and her future and prosperity must be closely tied to the Asian countries bordering the Pacific. Instead of allowing herself to become the last outpost of an aggressive and desperate United States, she should link more closely with the peoples of Asia, for the future, assuredly, belongs to them."