RELATIONS WITH U.S.

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27402, 15 July 1954, Page 3

RELATIONS WITH U.S.

Sir,—lf “Red Duster” can detect a lecture in my letter, the honour is mutual, his imagination being worthy of higher activities. Fear of social change, which wrecked collective security, and United States lobbying at Geneva, which helped to wreck the disarmament conference at Geneva, were major causes of Britain’s naval problems at that time. Recent advance as to cost and control of atomic weapons has outmoded many defensive concepts, the only practical security being the outlawry of this criminal hazard. Even, a recent study of United States foreign policy does not convince as to its stability or effectiveness in furthering our destiny of helping to feed a starving world. The price of security entails a payment in national sovereignty; but this should be within the orbit of a supranational body, freed from the limitations of its members’ former compulsions.—Yours, etc., MAIN SEQUENCE. July 13, 1954.

Sir, —All right-thinking New Zealanders will agree with “Stop Foolish Recrimination” when he says the cooperation of Britain and the United States is the cornerstone for world peace. It is this which prompted me to come to the defence of the United States, which has so often been unjustlv criticised by Britishers with very” little knowledge of history. We New Zealanders owe much to the United States; and in any future war it is to the American people that we shall have to look for protection. We have had ample ..evidence to satisfy ourselves that we can expect little or no assistance from Britain in this part of the world. Queen Victoria told Parliameht that if it wanted to have an Empire it would have to have the i means to defend it. Britain no longer t has the means. Let’s face it. “Knock- ■ ing” America is merely playing Mos- ; cow’s, game,—Yours, etc., NOTORNIS. July 12, 1954.