Executive Member Writes: "Salient" Defended

In view of my absence from the latter part of the Executive meeting on Wednesday, 16th April, I was unable, then, to register my dissent to the motion passed expressing the Executive's grave concern to the Editor of "Salient" concerning comments contained in an article of 27/3/58. I also disagree with the intention to impose censorship, and the Executive's suggestion of the Editor's possible suspension.

I personally do no approve of the way in which the opinions in the article were put forward. But this is not the question at stake—the freedom of the press is one of the first necessities for a lively community and for the Executive to attempt to suppress the views of a newspaper which is advertised as "an organ of student opinion" and not as "of Executive opinion" is an unwarranted act of interference.