MESSAGES TO SAMOA
Foreign Leaders’ Congratulations
(Special Crspdt. N.Z.P.A.) APIA, Jan. 2.
The Queen. Mr Khrushchev, the Chinese Prime Minister (Mr Chou En-lai) and other foreign leaders have sent messages to the Samoan Heads of State congratulating them on independence. The Queen said: “It has been an inspiration in this troubled world to see the Samoan people take over the responsibility for their future in so orderly and calm a manner. I am glad to know the Samoan and New Zealand peoples are firmly linked together by bonds of friendship and understanding and have pledged themselves to work together in the years to ccMne.”
Mr Chou said: "May the people of Western Samoa achieve further successes in their struggle to strengthen national unity and maintain national independence.” Other messages have come from Presidet Chaudet of Switzerland. King Gustav of Sweden and President de Valera, of Ireland. Personal messages from President Kennedy and the British Prime Minister. Mr Macmillan, were delivered by American and British representatives at the independence celebrations.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29712, 4 January 1962, Page 14
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