Washington
Sir,—Twelve years have passed since my family and I returned to the United States after three years residence in Christchurch, but I continue to feel an identity with New Zealand. Thus events of last month have made me proud of New Zealanders’ resistance to pressure from the Reagan Administration to overturn the Lange Government’s anti-nuclear stance. Clearly it is in every nation’s interest to keep existing stockpiles of nuclear weapons from ever being used. I believe it would be in everyone’s interest for the stockpiles to be reduced. Keeping at least New Zealand and the South Pacific free from nuclear weapons is a step in the direction of sparing the whole world from catastrophic destruction. At present, therefore, I am convinced that the Government of my favourite small nation is better serving the interests of mankind than is the Government of my favourite large nation.—Yours, etc WILLIAM R. CATTON, Jr. Pullman, Washington, February 28, 1985.
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