Purchase of land

Press, 31 March 1989, Page 8

Purchase of land

Sir, —Former President Reagan prophesied it and, as quoted in the Manila Declaration (March 23), the twenty-first century will be the Asia-Pacific century. His vision is one where trans-national corporations exploit Asia-Pacific peoples and natural resources. The manifesto continues: “Let us, collectively, turn the world’s largest region into its largest nuclear-free and foreign base-free zone.” Hence, Australia and New Zealand urgently require as powerful a build-up to their utmost financial, sea, air and power toleration if we intend remaining ethnically European States right through to the end of the twenty-first century and beyond for our descendants. Britain has exhausted her “glorious” heyday, hence today our only guarantee of ethnic continuity is the present military power of the United States prior to its historically inevitable lower-than-safety level decline for Australia and New Zealand. Without the background shield of the United States, yet while detesting and decrying nuclearmissiledom, we are a magnetic open sesame to over-populated, hungry Asia, currently busily engaged in converting us from owners into tenants. Are .we awake or a bunch of longsleeping Rip Van Winkles? — Yours, etc.,

W. J. COLLINS. March 25, 1989.