Import Controls
Sir, —I can’t imagine why “Colonel Prigg” should think that I disagree with him on such a self-evident fact as the relative unimportance of New Zealand in world trade. I joined issue with “Finance” simply because she was so patently astray on unfamiliar ground, and was trying to postulate untenable theories. She is further off the beam in assuming that the financial balance of England and America was disturbed at the time of President Eisenhower’s illness by fears of a “change of Government." Actually had he died or' retired his party’s administration would have carried on under somebody else until its term had been completed. The disturbing factor for markets in the President’s illness was his personal importance as one of the architects of an 611-too-precarious peace. I wonder whether the New Zealand woollen trade would be flattered by the suggestion that it is in heed of “charity”?—Yours, etc..
CARACTACUS. February 14, 1958.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28513, 17 February 1958, Page 2
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