FOREIGN POLICY.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —I read with considerable amusement the report of the W.E.A. meeting, wherein the speakers elaborated in a fantastic manner various viewpoints regarding New Zealand’s foreign policy and what it should be. One speaker made the far-fetched and utterly ridiculous statement that Great Britain supported Mussolini and assisted Hitler in re-armament. Evidently the speaker has not acquired the habit of reading the daily papers, or reads only what suits him, and draws on his apparently vivid imagination for further enlightenment, otherwise he would be aware that Britain led the way in disarmament and encouraged other nations to do the same. If this piece of common knowledge is not sufficient, let him recall the manner in which Britain protested to the League against German armaments. I will ask the speaker a question: Would Britain, after making great efforts to maintain peace between Italy, and Abyssinia, and then opposing Mussolini by applying sanctions, assist Italian rearmament? I say that she definitely would not. I would suggest that the speaker mentioned should stick to facts and leave fiction to novelists.—l am, etc.. Union Jack. September 30.
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Evening Star, Issue 22458, 1 October 1936, Page 7
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