Colombo Plan Aid
Sir,—On Friday last a very lengthy discussion took place in Parliament on New Zealand’s part in the Colombo Plan. Members on both sides of the House, while- lauding our effort to aid the underdeveloped countries, expressed doubt whether the people of these lands were really getting the benefits which are their due. Only this morning I listened to a news bulletin broadcast from Australia. It was to say the least, an “eye-opener.” On the one hand hunger—starvation almost—was reported over a large area of Indonesia; yet in the same dispatch the arrival of a great consignment of arms from the U.S.S.R. was featured. Are we (and others) paying for President Soekarno’s sabrerattling? In spite of all the hot air about liberation and democracy the common people are worse off by far under their own leaders. — Yours, etc, MONEY DOWN TEE DRAIN. September 15, 1961.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29621, 18 September 1961, Page 3
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