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Salient. Victoria University of Wellington Student's Newspaper. Volume 31, Number 5. April 2 1968

Varsity peace group plans protest — Krishna Menon Speaks ..

Varsity peace group plans protest

Krishna Menon Speaks ...

Photo: Robert W. Joiner.

• "You cannot suppress people abroad and maintain freedom at home."

• "As Bertram Russell said, man has so far survived by his ignorance. We are betwixt one world that's dead and another that's afraid to be born.

• "It is sometimes said that the purpose of language is to communicate thoughts. With politicians that is not always so. Language is sometimes used to cover up thoughts."

• "Once the policy was divide and rule, now it is divide and leave."

• "Ideology is not important in this war. Ideology is not now as important at it was

• "Is the fellow who is being in the time of the Crusades." bombed really less civilised than the person who bombs him?"

• "The expenditure for one day in the Vietnam war would pay the whole annual budget of the U.N."

Photo: Robert W. Joiner.

Photo: Robert W. Joiner.

A march in protest against the Vietnam war and the Seato conference will leave Hunter Building on Wednesday at 1 p.m., the chairman of the University Peace in Vietnam Committee, Owen Gager, has announced.

The protest will be silent.

It will be the only demonstration against the Seato conference to take place early this week.

"This demonstration comes at a time when many are seriously calling in question the value of demonstrations as such," Mr. Gager said.

"We hope to make it as effective—and as pacific—as possible to illustrate that demonstrations still serve a purpose, as the only way of allowing every individual who wishes to associate with others in the dissociating himself from the planning of the Vietnam war going on in this country".

"There is no other way an individual can register an observable and public protest against the war.

"The Seato confernece gives to the Vietnam allies one of the many genuine opportunities for choice that history has accorded them so far", Mr. Gager said.

"They could choose at this moment to recognise how damaging, both psychologically and materially the NLF Tet offensive has been to them.

"They could recognise in the successes of both Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy in the United States presidential primaries evidence of a swing of American opinion against the war.

"They could admit the ineffectiveness and disarray of their alliances and the difficulties of getting reinforcements.

"This period in the war gives as good and honourable reasons to the Americans as they have ever had to pull out of Vietnam.

"This march should underline what history is showing the Americans—and emphasize that disillusion with the war is not confined to United States presential primaries."

Photo: Mike Silver