China
Sir,—“White Rose” asks: “Do the Red Guards actually exist, and if so, what is their function?” I think readers must trust our foreign correspondents here that they do exist! One could, like a civil servant, present all the practical-sounding objections to youth propaganda in China without giving any yardstick as to how these measure against Communist policy. We all have a nebulous concept of China’s foreign policy and it would appear that children are indoctrinated in the same manner as they are here with knowledge which we have to unlearn as we grow up in a tough, practical world. The fact that China has organised herself to put food into 700 million hungry stomachs by the technique of MarxLeninism indicates that even New Zealanders have gaps in their education when we remember the misgovernment of our “hungry thirties.”—Yours, etc, RALPH S. WHEELER. Timaru, January 18, 1967.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31274, 21 January 1967, Page 12
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