RUGBY TOUR CONDEMNED
Accusation Of Hypocrisy
(New Zealand Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH. March 27. “Our sense of proportion is so distorted that we are willing to exchange the bleeding bodies of defenceless natives for the chance of retaining football supremacy,” Canon K. Liggett, vicar of St. Mary’s Anglican Church, New Flymouth, said in his sermon tonight. “But the plaudits of a shocked world are not for us even if we win every match in South Africa.
“In the eyes of the Asian and South-east Asian people our hypocrisy will not be forgotten. “Other Governments have registered their protest, but up to this moment our own, apparently unwilling to risk the votes of a Rugby-frenzied people, remains silent.
“When it was Hitler and the Jews and the poor defenceless people of Poland we sent the cream of our young men to their deaths to stop him. “Now it is Verwoerd and the blacks we .send a colour-bar football team because we say: ‘You musn’t mix sport with politics and what is happening in South Africa is their affair. We must protect our own natives’ and other sickening platitudes. “The people of New Zealand have hides like the football they worship and as little inside.”
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29165, 28 March 1960, Page 12
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