President Johnson’s Visit

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31198, 24 October 1966, Page 10

President Johnson’s Visit

Sir, —It was with delight that I read P.J.A. was in Wellington to welcome the leader of the free world. It is rather a pity P.J.A. failed to see and hear the acclamation of 100,000 people gathered with him. In reply to “Enzedder,” for many years now, I have heard rumours that the Soviets occupied Eastern Europe, the Chinese raped Tibet, fought the UN in Korea and instigated revolution, murder, violence and subversion in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. This appears to have been substantiated by many allegedly responsible Westerners and millions of fascist jackals who have ungratefully deserted the people’s paradises. However I suggest “Enzedder” discount these vicious rumours and continue believing his fairytale theory as to why so many decent and free men loathe Red Fascism. —Yours etc. AWAKE. October 22, 1966.

Sir, —I hope the demonstrators take note of the tumultuous welcome accorded President Johnson in New Zealand and Australia. The President is not only being saluted as a popular leader of the free world and the great American nation, but also for his determination to thwart the psychotic ambitions of madmen such as Ho Chi Minh. The overwhelming welcome is by implication an endorsement of the allied policy in Vietnam. The minority can howl forever now—history shall leave them and their misdirected banners fluttering behind into deserved obscurity. This has been an age of delusion: a minority deluding itself that the majority can be swayed into abandoning persecuted nations if a few placards are pushed into their faces, morally indignant fools picketing the world’s true peacemakers, and the wolves in sheep’s clothing parading as angelic peacemakers and self-styled emissaries of the world’s conscience. One must suffer them I suppose.—Yours, etc., THE MAJORITY. October 22, 1966.