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Sir,—New Zealand has had a non-nuclear policy since" 1957 when the request of the British Foreign Secretary, Duncan Sandys, for New Zealand to store nuclear weapons was refused. The policy was ratified when New Zealand signed the nonproliferation treaty in 1969. This, notwithstanding a recent correspondent’s “elementary lesson,” the only difference in the present Government’s policy is a unique and perverse refusal to take traditional allies on trust in accepting the occasional visiting ship. The ulterior motive in this Left-wing-inspired policy is, as pointed out by Sir Ewen Jamieson, the removal of New Zealand from A.N.Z.U.S. Under this antiA.N.Z.U.S. policy, New Zealand is loved by Moscow, but scorned by Australia, Great Britain, the United States, and most Western democracies. They await a change of Government for sanity, a sense of responsibility, and A.N.Z.U.S. to be restored.— Yours, etc., JAMES BACON. September 1, 1989.
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