Mr Nash’s Broadcast
Sir.-—I agree with John Burbridge that the robbery of the East over the last 300 years is the direct cause of Asia's poverty today. European “penetration” of Asia began three and a half centuries ago. There was a time when a Ship costing the Portuguese owners £4OOO, sailed round the Cape to the East and came back with a cargo worth £150,000. Now let us review time, history, and geography. Of late, the British have had to quit India. Burma. Ceylon. The French have quit Cochin China, which they took by force from the Chinese, and the Dutch Indonesia and the Americans the Philippines. In the face of history, S.E.A.T.O. is merely an instrument to delay the complete elimination of Western colonialism from the East. But let us look at the map. To the north. European Russia has extended her territory right across to Sakhalin.—Yours, etc., RALPH S. WHEELER. April 11, 1958.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28559, 12 April 1958, Page 3
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