N.Z., Ireland..and the E.E.C.
Sir, — The distorted view of A. Robertson, “ . . . the country that harbours the terrorists who murder our kith and kin in Ulster,” (August 19) explains the immoderately anti-Irish tenor of his letter. Ulster is an Irish province, six of whose counties are now under military occupation by A. Robertson’s “kith and kin,” originally settled there after Oliver Cromwell’s genocidal massacre of the native Irish in the seventeenth century. A. Robertson’s “terrorists” are Irish patriot guerrillas, waging a liberation war against an oppressing great Power’s occupation of its territory. No-one can blame the Irish Republic for giving refuge to its kith and kin waging hopefully, the last battle in Ireland's 800-year struggle to free itself from English occupation. Ireland’s straitened economic circumstances arise directly from its unhappy relations with A. Robertson’s kith and kin. In world trade economic self-interest is the law of survival, in New Zealand as in Ireland. — Yours, etc., M. CREEL. August 19, 1978.
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