Children And Politics
Sir,—One had always, until recently, associated children’s political demonstrations with Communist or Fascist practice. and condemned them accordingly. Children have no political views of their own (unless they are precocious little monsters) and should not be organised into waving banners, shouting slogans, and generally making fools of themselves on approved adult lines. Neither will they do so without some prompting from their elders. The fact that the little Indonesian “demonstrators” should have been let loose on a grand anti-Communist free-for-all is no recommendation of their country of origin, or the discipline of its educational system, though no doubt the juvenile patriots enjoyed it almost as much as throwing the inkpot at teacher’s head and scoring a bull’s-eye.— Yours, etc., I.S.T. March 9, 1966.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31005, 10 March 1966, Page 16
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126Children And Politics Press, Volume CV, Issue 31005, 10 March 1966, Page 16
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