China And U.N.

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31547, 8 December 1967, Page 12

China And U.N.

Sir, —Varian J. Wilson would earn more respect if he did not invent ideas and pin them to the names of other people. As a New Zealander with a sense of responsibility for the utterances of my country’s representatives, 1 consider it hypocritical that our delegate to the United Nations should attack China for pressing ahead with the development of nuclear weapons while overlooking the similar course of four United Nations members. One of these is our military ally the United States, whose nuclear “protection” we accept, and who has continued underground testing of nuclear weapons in the face of resolutions passed by the last Assembly urging that nuclear Powers should slacken their build-up in the interests of a non-proliferation agreement. New Zealand supported those resolutions, but have we ever discussed putting them into practice?—Yours, etc., ELSIE LOCKE, i December 7, 1967.

Sir, —Replying to “A. B. Cedarian,” the only positive action the United States-dom-inated United Nations ever embarked upon (Congo) proved a fiasco of unnecessary bloodshed culminating in the death of>Dag Hammerskjold en route to the Congo to neutralise the antics of his nominee, Connor Cruse O’Brien. As a reputed world police organisation, it palsied at its inception, but proved a valuable tool in United States hands to enforce independence on indigent British colonies, unfit for their immediate role, nonetheless a ready market for the export of United States arms at the fait accompli. Soviet Russia is universally recognised as a world Power, so much so that a prominent international personality has suggested Johnson and Brezhnev join forces to keep Mao in the cellar. 1900 years ago a leader fiddled while his capital burned. The world has changed little, but its fiddlers have increased.—Yours, etc., NORTH-WEST. December 5, 1967.