Rhodesia
Sir, —Correspondents confuse moral and legal issues. Morally the white Rhodesian deserves sympathy in his desire to maintain the status quo, but there is the wider moral issue of majority rule. Are we in New Zealand morally entitled to our privileged prosperity forever? Or shall we, as American State or Asian province, become a permanent minority voice as we are now in the United Nations? Thirty years ago Bishop Cherrington advocated the admission of 10 million Japanese into New Zealand as a Christian duty to an impoverished neighbour. Legality protects us from such a fate—the same legality which is applied so reluctantly in Rhodesia, in chaos because a rebel, encouraged by prior assurances of physical immunity, still has no warrant out for his arrest. The Crown is still responsible for Rhodesia, yet ou” Prime Minister wants “honourable and fair” compromise with a man who blatantly flouts the law.— Yours, etc., VARIAN J. WILSON. December 19,1966.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31247, 20 December 1966, Page 20
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