Rewi Alley dies in adopted land
NZPA-Reuter Peking Rewi Alley, a New Zealandborn Left-wing writer who fought in World War I and made China his home for 60 years, died in Peking yesterday. The official New China News Agency said Alley died of heart failure and cerebral thrombosis. The agency.described him as a noted social activist and an old friend of China. The leader of the Communist Party, Zhao Ziyang, celebrated Alley’s ninetieth birthday with him on December 2 at his Peking villa. He was honoured on the same day at a reception in the New Zealand Parliament given by the Prime Minister, Mr Lange. When many noted New Zealanders of today have vanished from memory, Rewi Alley’s place in history would be secure, the Minister of Overseas Trade, Mr Moore, said yesterday. “Rewi Alley would probably be, after Sir Edmund Hillary, the best known New Zealander in the world and in 100 years, when we are all forgotten, he will still hold an honoured place in world history,” Mr Moore said in a
statement on behalf of the Government. “His contribution to the most populous nation on Earth is the most profound of any non-Chin-ese. In time his legend will be as well known in New Zealand as in China.” Obituary, page 7
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