TASMAN DEFENCE
China Seen As ‘Colossus’
(N.Z Press Association) HASTINGS. Mar. 27. The people of Australia and New Zealand should remember that very little stood between their two countries and the colossus of China, the Australian High Commissioner (Mr D. W. McNicol) told the English Speaking Union’s Dominion conference in Hastings. Mr McNicol said there was no doubt that the destiny of New Zealand and Australia would be decided in Asia, not in Europe. “It behoves us all, your country as well as mine, to do more about the threatening situation in Asia, and 1 do not mean in a military sense,” he said. New Zealand or Australia could not stand against the powers in Asia alone. “We are not allies with America just because we have signed a piece of paper. Without the A.N.Z.U.S. Treaty we have had it,” he said.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31020, 28 March 1966, Page 13
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