Sanctions

Press, 28 August 1986, Page 20

Sanctions

Sir,—lf people are judged by the company they keep, as Bert Walker opines (August 25), he had better look to the company with which he is pleased to associate himself. During World War II New Zealand was only too glad to be “firmly in bed” with another Communist Party, that of the Soviet Union. It is no coincidence that New Zealand finds itself, historically, on the side of communists and marxists against today’s ideological heirs of Hitler’s racist theories. It does scant justice to all those people, noncommunists and non-marxists, who abhor South Africa’s apartheid system to credit only communists and marxists as apartheid’s implacable enemies. Bert Walker’s extraordinary question, “Do New Zealanders really want to be so intimately associated with those cowards who target, kill, mutilate the helpless, the unarmed, the innocent?” applies more fittingly to white South Africa, which he so ardently champions, than to the blacks, whom he maligns. — Yours, etc., M. CREEL. August 25, 1986. Sir,—The Canadian “On Target” publication (June 2), reported Bishop Desmond Tutu as

saying: “Our country is burning, our children are dying.” He forgot to add that most of the black casualties are inflicted by black terrorists. The “Toronto Star” (June 2), reported that a group of shovel-wielding blacks attacked a black South African policeman at a funeral, threw him into the open grave and buried him alive. A Reuter dispatch (May 28) reported the vow of the A.N.C. to attack white civilians in South Africa, including white schoolchildren. Bishop Tutu’s communist-controlled A.N.C. is supported by the World Council of Churches and Leftwing politicians, world wide. Bishop Tutu tried desperately to bestow an aura of legitimacy and Christian charity to this premeditated planned violence and murder, even that of little children. Do those who support sanctions, and thereby Communism, believe their unresearched views are more important than the lives of innocent children?— Yours, etc., BERT WALKER. August 25, 1986.