“RED EUROPE.”

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVIII, Issue 18573, 27 November 1920, Page 10

“RED EUROPE.”

TO THE EDITOK. Sir, —At a time when tho Workers’ Educational Association is making valiant efforts to show tho world (1) That it is not the secret agent of tho Employers’ Federation, and (2) that it is in no way connected with any labour party, the statement in your editorial note, that the W.E.A. library is credited with , possessing a copy of “ Red Europe,” is particularly unfortunate, as well, of course, as being untrue. Tho “ Lyttelton Times ” has frequently emphasised the fact that the W.E.A. is a strictly non-political organisation, whose ono object is tho spread of knowledge divorced from political or religious bias. The W.E.A. sets out with the belief that there are matters which no member of the democracy should he ignorant of, that the only hope for tho world is not in tho pleasant utopian conceptions of well-meaning but ill-bal-anced dreamers, but in frankly facing the facts that are vouchsafed by. modern scientific research. The W.E.A. is really controlled, as far as Canterbury is concerned, by the Canterbury College Board of Governors, whose chairman, Mr H. D. Acland, is president of the W.E.A. Dominion Council Individual members of the W.E.A., as well as tutors, aro of course, at liberty to express what sentiments they like, outside the organisation, but tho association as :• body remain; strictly non-political and unseetr.rian. —l am etc., H. WILLIAMS, Sec Workers’ Educational Assn. ‘ nvember 26.