INVICTUS. March 8, 1967.
Sir, —Is it because America, not Britain, is repulsing lethal aggression in our geographical direction that Varian Wilson dubs our active service obsequious? A tiny Ordnance advance-party was already on its way to Cairo in 1939 when Burnham was preparing to receive the First Echelon. Why should it be servile now to set out in small numbers for Saigon? De Gaulle on Vietnam may make sense to Varian Wilson but he is unconcerned for New Zealand. When in Peking a member of his staff, according to the “Daily Telegraph,” remarked to a Chinese official that there could never be a Communist revolution. Mao-style, in Australia, because it had no peasant population, he received the explanation, “we shall bring it there.” Eden impresses in being right always in the past, Kennedy in being wrong about his own future, U Thant in misplacing faith in humannature, and Mr Kirk in announcing he is by-passing the issue in the by-elections. —Yours, etc., A. B. CEDARIAN. March 11, 1967.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31317, 13 March 1967, Page 12
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