Student “Labelled” After Chinese Trip
(New Zealand Press Association)
WANGANUI, March 10.
The most frightening aspect of visiting China was not being caught up in Red Guard purges in the cultural revolution; it was returning to New Zealand labelled “Communist,” a university student said on his return to Wanganui yesterday.
Mr W. McLisky, a 21-year-old commerce student, said the party of students he was with first felt the “taint” on
the return ship, then more markedly in Australia, and again in New Zealand.
“I didn’t realise how narrow minded we were in New Zealand,” he said. At least New Zealand was not as bad as Australia, where he clashed with the customs over North Vietnamese and Chinese literature, fighting a losing battle for hours. The confiscation of the books was “a complete denial of our democratic system,” he said. He had been looked on as “obviously pinkish,” and condemned outright merely for going into a Communist country—“and here I am, a bourgeois capitalist to the core.”
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31316, 11 March 1967, Page 3
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