Muldoon for ‘Machiavelli’

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34146, 6 May 1976, Page 7

Muldoon for ‘Machiavelli’

WAIPUKURAU. “If only we had a Prime Minister with an ounce of Muldoon in him instead of a bushel of Machiavelli flavoured with Fidel.” says the Toronto “Sun” newspaper in an editorial. The Sun" carried in its April 19 edition criticism of Canada s Trudeau Government and praised New Zealand's Prime Minister for his stand against African countries which threatened to boycott the Olympics if the All Blacks toured South Africa The Waipukurau branch of the National Party has received a clipping of the editorial. which uses .Mr Mul-i doon’s stand to illustrate v. hat it describes as items that show up Canada as! ’’hypocritical, cowardly, and. with a double standard. Alli thanks to Trudeau policy.’’ • The "Sun” claims that Mr

Trudeau ‘indulges ideologi-i cal prejudices to the shame of] his country’’ by refusing to I honour a pledge to provide; $500,000 for the Paraplegic; Olympic- if an integrated team for South Africa is allowed to compete. “The other item concerns 29 African countries trying to: blackmail by threatening if a New Zealand rugger team: goes through with a tour of; South Africa, the African! countries would boycott the coming Montreal Olympics. ’New Zealand Tory P.M. Rob Muldoon, who won al surprise landslide election last December, in effect told the African blackmailers to; get stuffed — the tour would: continue. . . . He. too. refused] to confuse sport with politics. ’’lf the Africans want to. boycott the Olympics, tough principles here are more important. They won't — they haven’t the guts “They are dabbling in rhetoric, apparently thinking; New Zealand’s new Government is as craven and pliable! as Canada’s.” the editorial says.