Fiji
Sir,—While the conclusion of your leading article on sanctions cannot be faulted, it is flawed by your acceptance of the Indianbashing canard, according to which that race dominates Fiji’s business life. Fiji’s economy depends upon sugar, gold, and tourism as foreign exchange earners. Only in the first could Fiji Indians be said to be dominant, and then only by the numbers of, by our standards, impoverished tenant farmers. Real economic power in gold, tourism, banking and air transport lies with Europeans, largely through multinational corporations, mostly Australian. It is their interests, and those of their Australasian workers, not the Fijians, which our unions and Governments are anxious to protect. Not for Fiji the high moral principle which directs policy towards South Africa, where Australasian investment is minimal. Principle falls victim to pragmatism. It is not the pragmatism which offends, but the mendacious hypocrisy which attends it.—Yours, etc., J. L. CAMERON. January 22, 1988.
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