Nuclear weapons
. Sir, — Joan Larsen’s letter (September 4) concerning this country’s possible vulnerability in a hypothetical “fronting-up” between the “goodies” arid the “baddies’’ (obviously, the United States and the U.S.S.R.) highlights the question of New Zealand’s sovereignty. As I have previously written, this sov- ' ereignty.is also a purely hypothetical state — or cliche is more appropriate. How can we, so deeply : “in hock” to the United States,' to Japan, to West Germany, to Switzerland, be seriously regarded, other than=in a . Colonel Blimpish way. as a "sovereign state”, free to make decisions about' A.N.Z.U.S., or whatever? Like all people, nations,, so heavily in debt, we just have .to 'do as we are told by those holding the purse strings. We are not — and never really were — in a position to opt out of taking sides,’ one way or the other. — Yours, etc., LES BOGREN. September 4, 1980..
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