Television Report On Vietnam

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31027, 5 April 1966, Page 1

Television Report On Vietnam

(N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, April 4. - Dr. A. M. Finlay (Opp.. Waitakere) has accepted an invitation to appear on television after he returns from South Vietnam from a fact-finding mission. Earlier today the leader of the five-man mission, Mr D.

firmed his acceptance of the N.Z.B.C. invitation and said: “One is grateful for the opportunity to learn at firsthand what is going on in this controversial area.”

Dr. Finlay said there were “some disturbing indications” that official quarters viewed the tour as a diplomatic junket rather than—as he did

[Maclntyre (Govt., Hastings) —“a down-to-earth familiarisasaid he had been invited to tion with a war zone.” appear on television in a dis- “My reading and consideracussion with Dr. Finlay. tion of such other evidence as Tonight Dr. Finlay con- is available here have driven

me to certain strong, but provisional, conclusions, but my mind is. I trust, still open and receptive,” he said. “I myself doubt whether the answers to the questions

I want to ask are to be found in Saigon, but I intend to pursue them as vigorously as possible. “Our itinerary includes

Bien Hoa and Qui Nhon, and seems to include areas where the ordinary people of South Vietnam live—or more accurately, perhaps, exist. “If we can get through to them, they may perhaps have the answers that the dignitaries are unable to give,” said Dr. Finlay. The mission will leave Auckland on Thursday, and are due to leave Saigon for New Zealand on April 18.