N.Z. AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Sir,—lt is most fetching to see our Mr Holland, in the role of “peacemonger,” enunciating his own version of the World Peace Council’s formula of settling disputes by negotiation—- “ Shooting in any direction constitutes a danger.” But still this raises some questions. New Zealand has submitted to the Security Council the “question of hostilities in the area of certain islands off the coast of the mainland of China”—the Tachens and Quemoy, specifically excluding Formosa and the Pescadores. Since Chiang Kai-shek’s forces, on American advice, are preparing to get off these islands anyway, what is the real idea? Is New Zealand a cover to secure United Nations sanction for Chiang and the American forces to perch indefinitely on Formosa? Would not this constitute a war risk? There would be no threat to peace if the United States practised what she preaches, and kept her forces in her own backyard.—Yours, etc.. ELSIE LOCKE. February 3, 1955.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27576, 5 February 1955, Page 3
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