RECOGNITION OF CHINA
TV Interview With Mr Casey (N.Z. Press AssociationCopwrtflht) (Rec. 7 p.m.) SYDNEY. May 5. Increased Australian trade with Communist China, but not diplomatic recognition, is favoured by the Australian Minister of External Affairs (Mr Richard Casey). In what was described as “a spontaneous and unrehearsed interview” with newspaper executives over a Sydney television channel last night. Mr Casey said: “If we give Red China diplomatic recognition we would have the problem of Chiang Kai-shek’s people. I don’t think anyone would consider throwing them to the wolves, and diplomatic recognition of Red China would certainly mean that.” Mr Casey said he did not regard Chiang Kai-shek as corrupt, and said that he believed his Government had vastly improved since it moved to Formosa. The Australian Government neither encouraged nor discouraged visits by clergymen and others to Communist China, and took the same attitude to the proposed visit of Australian athletes to the Moscow Youth Sports later this year. “But I would not encourage a personal friend of mine to go.” Mr Casey said.
On the nuclear test controversy, Mr Casey said that if democracies were going to have'a nuclear defence, they had to test these weapons. The democracies were keen to have disarmament or some limitation on armament, but this could only be done by agreement with Russia. Any limitation on armament would have to include provision for strict inspection by both sides. It was difficult to be optimistic about nuclear tests being abandoned, Mr Casey said.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28270, 7 May 1957, Page 3
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