Neutrality
Sir,—Monday’s leader on A.N.Z.U.S. by a remarkable exercise in logic claimed that Sweden and Switzerland were better situated than New Zealand to be neutral because they would be in the thick of a nuclear war in a far more remote part of the globe. Perhaps we should urge neutrality on the United States and the Soviet Union too. Or perhaps the writer agreed with the report commissioned by the United States State Department which said that the Soviet Union posed no military threat to the South Pacific and gave reasons. One could point out that all these had been well publicised by the antinuclear supporters up to several years earlier. I referred to them myself in “New Zealand Politics in the Nuclear Age.” Returning to neutrality, someone had to make the first practical protest I ask your writer, who better placed than New Zealand?—Yours, etc.,
VERNON WILKINSON. December 3, 1985.
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