Nuclear weapons
Sir, — Under the headline, “Prince under fire” you report the view of the Queen’s Consort, expressed in the course of “the Lord Mountbatten memorial lecture at Cambridge”, that “only the existence of nuclear weapons had prevented a third world war.” You further describe how protests have followed from the British Labour Party’s international committee and from the Ecology Party, both on the basis of Lord Mountbatten’s known views (appearing at length in “The Press” of June 4, 1980), and of the w e 11-established constitutional convention that British royal personages “abstain from political controversy”. The protests appear valid. The episode will not pass unnoticed by those who observe, with increasing concern, how New Zealand's own., powers that be, step by step and almost week, by week, are further involving us, the people, in a foreign policy .geared to the . illusion of security through nuclear deterrence. — Yours, etc., HAROLD EVANS. February 12, 1981. .
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Press, 13 February 1981, Page 12
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