‘BUILDING BRIDGES’
Lincoln College view The Prime Minister (Mr Marshall) was taking an aloof view when he encouraged and expected young people of today idly to sit by and tolerate the police state racism of South Africa, the president of the Lincolp College Students’ Association (Mr W. K. Burge) said in Christchurch yesterday. “Mr Marshall’s logic with regard to building bridges and showing restraint over South Africa recalls Neville Chamberlain’s efforts to appease Hitler in 1939,” Mr Burge said. Mr Marshall’s present efforts are just as meaningless as Chamberlain’s “piece of paper”, he said. “The hypocrisy of Mr Marshall’s words when he expects New Zealanders to ad-
here to New Zealand law is clear, when he himself is prepared publicly to disregard international law. “The compromise he is prepared to make carries empty joy only to his colleagues in South Africa and the likes of the New Zealand Rugby Union,” Mr Burge said.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32861, 9 March 1972, Page 17
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