N.Z. Aid To India
The New Zealand Government’s decision to send blankets and dried butterfat valued at £lO,OOO to the Indian Army is a timely gesture of friendship towards a harassed nation. Most New Zealanders have joined with other Western peoples in deploring India’s reliance until recently upon non-alignment as almost its sole buttress against aggression. The present, however, is no time to deny any practicable assistance to the Indian nation on the
ground that Indian policies have often been hard to understand, or that Mr Nehru and his colleagues should have been more alert to the Communist danger and to the need for better physical defences. It is good that New Zealand has thus early helped to impress upon India the value in adversity of Commonwealth associations and of Western countries’ practical support. The only regret may be that the New Zealand gift is not bigger.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29984, 20 November 1962, Page 14
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