RHODESIAN MATCH
Dean Finds It Embarrassing
The Dean of Christchurch (the Very Rev. M. Underhill) feels embarrassed because the All Blacks have played a “formal and official” football match against Rhodesia. “I thought there was a gentleman’s agreement that members of the United Nations would not do business —sporting or commercial—with this Fascist State,” he says in his Cathedral newsletter. “By Fascist I mean a state where the bosses rule, the majority do not get a vote, free speech and newspapers are censored, and political leaders, white or black, are arrested without trial.” Dean Underhill also comments on the decision to hold the 1974 Commonwealth Games in Christchurch. “What fun! What a privilege to see many of the leading athletes in the world right here in. our home town," he says.
“I do hope our sporting leaders and administrators will learn a bit more diplomacy before 1974. Some of their remarks about African nations have in the past been very undiplomatic, to say the least.”
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32359, 27 July 1970, Page 12
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