Indonesia
Sir, —Why Ron O’Brien should call the pro-Commu-nists detained in Indonesia “progressive people” I cannot imagine. It is well known that where communism has come to power it has resurrected the intolerance of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when people were systematicallv tortured and punished for minor heresies. Spiritually, the spread of such regimes threatens to put the human race back three or four hundred years. Only people deprived of all capacity for relevant thought by our appalling education system could still consider communism progressive. New Zealanders'should try to see that those detained in Indonesia, often on uncertain evidence. are able to live in humane conditions, but it may be some time before a country like Indonesia will be strong enough to be immune to carriers of the communist virus. Real progress can result only from fundamental reforms within democracies.
—Yours, etc., MARK D. SADLER. February 22, 1972.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32848, 23 February 1972, Page 16
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