after the club resumed activities in 1953, szeto wah was ousted in the leadership elections in 1957 and 1958 by the "red faction", the students who studied at the pro-communist schools compared to the "gray faction" who studied at the english schools like szeto himself. after his leadership was stripped, szeto was frustrated with the power struggles and the distrust by the party leadership. szeto was sent to become an editor at the left-leaning "children's weekly" in 1960. at the same time, he became headmaster of the gcepsa kwun tong primary school in 1961. after the journal was closed down in 1966, the party ceased to contact szeto.