INTERNATIONAL OWNERSHIP
Sir-About nine years or so ago I wrote a letter to The Listener concerning, among other matters, the international ownership of the Antarctic Continent. Mr. Walter Nash a year or so ago made a similar statement. In the light 6f recent events, is it not time to reexamine such a proposal? Mr. R. M. Hutton-Potts in a recent Lookout suggested’ that it would be a right gesture by the United States to make the Panama Canal an internationally controlled waterway. Colonel Nasser is against such control of the Suez Canal. I suggest that everything which can help toward the realisation that we all belong to the same species will be to the benefit of all mankind. States are made up of communities and communities of individuals. Why, then, cannot the thuman race accept its diversity knowing that in diversity there is strength and ultimate good? An important step toward the unity of man would be the ownership of some part of the earth by all men. Who could unify us? Ourselves or invaders from outer space -killers of course, as we are but men, Or am I too naive?
G. C.
MARTIN
(Invercargill).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 896, 5 October 1956, Page 5
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195INTERNATIONAL OWNERSHIP New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 896, 5 October 1956, Page 5
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