SMALL BOY, BIG BIKE

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31832, 9 November 1968, Page 14

SMALL BOY, BIG BIKE

(By

WHIM WHAM)

“We must do everything we can to rally international support to ensure that a settlement in Vietnam is respected" . . . New Zealand influence could be significant. . .—Mr Holyoake, in special foreign affairs debate on Wednesday. The Opposition believed that the complete bombing halt over North Vietnam should have been called sooner.—Mr Kirk, same debate.

“Hanoi has not been brought to the conference table by weakness and withdrawal but by strength. . —Mr Muldoon, same debate.

They’re talking Foreign Affairs In the House, With the solemnest of Airs, In the House, They mind their Manners duly, No-one’s heated or unruly, This needs playing very coolly In the House. They’ve said it AU before In the House. They’ve added Nothing more In the House, For until the U.S.A. Mairks the Line and What to lay On it, What is there to say In the House? Whose Policies are These, In the House? Are the Owners overseas? In the House, We overrate our Status, Are we Players, or Spectators? We talk like Club Debaters In the House. Kirk, Holyoake, the Lot In the House, And Thousands who are not In the House, If our Policy’s our Fate, That’s a Thing for REAL Debate, Sir, how We Pontificate In the House! So much Talking out of Turn In the House! Are We ever going to learn In the House, That Nobody cares a Fig For the international Prig Doing Little, talking Big In the House.