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Kiwiblog
19-05-2025
- Politics
- Kiwiblog
A sadistic communist
Stuff reports: The files are set against the backdrop of the global uncertainty of the Cold War. Intelligence officers were identifying subversives suspected of Soviet espionage, and were investigating whether Green had any communist affiliations or leanings that would affect his suitability for citizenship. The evidence they found hardly seems shocking: the first record comes from a 1953 report that Green had attended a NZ-USSR film evening in Wellington and was on the NZ-USSR Society Wellington branch mailing list. Then a 1954 Special Branch report found he 'agitated' for a Communist Party speaker to address students at Auckland Teachers' Training College. … The principal, Sim, told the intelligence officers Green was a 'complete egocentric with a contempt for authority'. Sim would not let Green teach history because he didn't trust him: 'he had distributed a number of Russian Communist pamphlets to fifth and sixth formers until he was quickly stopped'. So a communist teacher trying to indoctrinate students. But far worse than that. 'There has been one occasion when Green was guilty of the most sadistic treatment of a boy and [the principal] bitterly regrets that even then he failed to take a strong line. … One word in particular leapt out: sadistic — because it rang true with his own experience of Green more than two decades later. 'He wanted me to receive and give torture whilst tied naked to a chair and also using the school cane.' It was legal to cane pupils back then, but most definitely not to cane them naked and tied to a chair! And Green himself won't face justice: he died in 2022. A pity he escaped.
The Guardian
01-05-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
Workers, dancers and pagans: Thursday's photos of the day
A funeral is held for two people who were killed by a US airstrike on two houses in the north-west of the city Photograph: Mohammed Hamoud/Anadolu/Getty Images Members of the May 1st Collective march against a meeting of the far-right National Rally party on International Workers' Day Photograph: Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images Tourists dressed in Hanfu visit the Summer Palace Photograph: Jessica Lee/EPA A burned-out garden centre in a village among hills west of Jerusalem, where emergency services have been battling wildfires for a second day. Police have reported the reopening of several major roads that had been closed Photograph: John Wessels/AFP/Getty Images A cat is spared the loud noises at Pet Expo Thailand with specially designed ear defenders Photograph: Rungroj Yongrit/EPA Visitors take in the view at Tsim Sha Tsui during the May Day holiday Photograph: Bertha Wang/AP Members and supporters of Russian Communist party carry a portrait of Joseph Stalin as they take part in May Day celebrations near the Karl Marx monument. International Workers' Day is an annual holiday that celebrates workers, their rights, achievements and contributions to society Photograph: Sergei Ilnitsky/EPA Union members rallying on May Day Photograph: Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters A woman working at a brick kiln Photograph: Pervez Masih/AP A man rides his motorbike through the shadows Photograph: Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images Protesters raise their fists during a May Day rally Photograph: Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP/Getty Images Protesters shout slogans from a bus after being detained by Turkish police. Officers detained dozens of people who were trying to tear down barricades to reach Taksim Square, where authorities had forbidden 1 May rallies Photograph: Kemal Aslan/AFP/Getty Images Palestinians search the rubble of a house targeted by an Israeli strike that killed at least five members of the Abu Sahloul family Photograph: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP An environmental protester is carried out of a building hosting the Drax annual general meeting in the City of London Photograph: Vuk Valcic/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock Swimmers using the suspended Sky Pool in Nine Elms on a sunny day Photograph: Kin Cheung/AP Beltane celebrations, marking the beginning of summer, at Glastonbury Chalice Well Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA Store manager Matt Gould celebrates a customer arriving at the opening of the new Ikea store by Oxford Circus Photograph: Andy Hall/The Observer The Wessex Morris Men greet sunrise at the Trendle, an ancient earth-banked enclosure on the hill above the Cerne Abbas Giant hill figure Photograph:
