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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 30, No. 11. 1967.

National club dissents

National club dissents

Salient estimated up to 2000 people took part in the demonstration.

A committee meeting of the VUW National Party Club last week passed the following motions disagreeing with the Government.

That one member of the Committee join the Committee on Vietnam deputation which may be received by the Prime Minister as a result of Tuesday's demonstration.

That the Committee direct its delegate to inform the Prime Minister that the Committee disassociates itself from the attack made by the Prime Minister on Colonel Low as reported in the Evening Post 29/7/67 and from the Prime Minister's statement quoted in the Evening Post 2/8/67 that "those who trumpet loudest that the United States is pulling the strings in Vietnam are themselves in danger of dancing to the tune of Communist North Vietnam and Communist China" and urges Mr. Holyoake to answer critics of his Vietnam policy with rational argument rather than with personally directed invective.

This is not the first time the Club has deviated from National Party policy. In 1966 the Club released statements condemning both the News Media Ownership and the Narcotics Bills.