Subversion

Press, 2 December 1987, Page 20

Subversion

Sir, —Sincere apologies for using the League of Rights as a convenient portmanteau for more than 85 groups, and offending non-members. The Soviets probably did advise New Zealand communists on overthrowing capitalism here, but local communists are intelligent and educated enough to see New Zealand is a different case — upless present economics continue too long. Communism does not spread where conditions are just; does not exploit economically like capitalism. If someone will lend me “Kiwis at the Crossroads,” I will try to read and return it quickly. A “lion” is not necessarily a member of the admiring group, and Geoff McDonald has lecture-toured for the league. Children’s learning is

too wonderful to be limited to phonetics mostly, though they do help, as do meaning, expectation, etc. But some letters have many sounds, e.g., o, as in dog, woman, women, obey, to, once, constable. (I miscopied one sentence in my letter under the heading "Labour recognition” published on November 26. The sentence in question should read: “In each country the Soviets support the majority government or the powerless majority...’’) — Yours, etc., SUSAN TAYLOR. November 26, 1987.