The following article appeared in the 'Canberra Times' on 3lst May: "No Ac in t Professor H.W. Arndt was last night found guilty of disloyalty to the ALP by the Canberra South branch of the party but no further action is to be taken against him. Professor Arndt is Professor of Economics in the Research School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University. He has been a member of the ALP for 15 years. The charge followed the publication of an article by Professor Arndt in the students' newspaper, Worini, a month ago. The article criticised ALP policy on Vietnam, In the article, which was reprinted in the Canberra Times, Professor Arndt said he agreed with the policy of the British Prime Minister, Mr. Wilson, rather than with the policy of the Leader of the Opposition, Mr. Calwell. However, he made his criticism with ‘some reluctance because it is liable to lead to yet another move to have me expelled from the ALP.' Professor Arndt was last threatened with expulsion from the party in 1956. At last night''s meeting, Professor Arndt was charged with disruption and disloyalty. It is understood that the motion was carried by a small majority. The meeting then voted on the voices to take no further action against him. The disloyalty charge could have led to his expulsion."
+e tee eteerereret Others no doubt have shared my childhood fancies of Australians at the bottom of the wrld walking upside down. A comparison of the Arndt case with that of Ken Coates undoubtedly helps us to see who is really standing on their heads 4 It is well known that one of the things which truly infuriated the Party machine here was Ken Coates' uncompromising attacks on Wilson's Vietnam policy, at last year's Conference, and in the bulletin "Briefing", which he helped to edit at the Conference. In Australia, they don't move to discipline Harold Wilson's opponents - they censure his supporters } It will be remembered that in May 1965, the ALP unanimously opposed troops for Vietnam, Three weeks ago, May 1966, the Labour Party Parliamentarians, the ALP Executive, and the Party Conference unanimously opposed conscription of troops. Opposition leader Caldwell, in his speech, said: "We oppose the dirty, senseless, unwinnable Vietnam campaign by the USA." It must be a source of great frustration to our own Party machine that they can't discipline or expel Comrade Calwell |
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