Credit taken for visa ban
The blame for the South African Government’s refusal to grant a visa to the chairman of H.A.R.T. (Mr Trevor Richards) should be placed with the New Zealand Friends of South Africa Association, not with the South African Government, the association’s director of public relations (Mr B. R. Delamore) said in a letter to “The Press.” Mr Delamore, of Auckland, said that Mr Richards’ assertion that the South Africans had refused his visa because they were “frightened” of him displayed “a lack of reasoning indicative only of limited adolescence.” While wandering aimlessly in the realms of socio-politi-cal insignificance, Mr Richards had contributed nothing to racial accord in New Zealand, and there was no reason to suppose he would have done otherwise in South Africa. His association had told the South African ConsulGeneral in New Zealand in "no equivocal terms” of its opposition to the granting of a visa, Mr Delamore said.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32886, 8 April 1972, Page 18
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