P.M. should return— Mr Lange
PA Wellington The Prime Minister’s advocacy for a new Bretton Woods conference has been spurned internationally and he should return to New Zealand, said the Labour Leader, Mr Lange, yesterday.
He told a post-caucus press conference that Mr Muldoon did not have the support of any of the leading figures of the International Monetary Fund. “When it wasn’t taken up he actually attacked the constitution of the United States as one of the reasons for them being defiant of his desires.
“We now have no meeting with the President, nothing at all going on. What on earth is he doing there?” Mr Lange said that he believed it was important for political figures to travel and represent New Zealand abroad, but it was wrong for a Prime Minister to pursue a personal campaign which showed no advantage for New Zealand. “In the face of all his advocacy it has been spurned by all the countries he had to sell it to. He claimed support from the United States. Now the President won’t even see him. I think it’s time for him to come home.”
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