MEET NEW ZEALAND
Williams, John
Meet New Zealand - UNDERSTANDING NEW ZEALAND, by Frederick L. W. Wood. Coward-McCann, Inc. $3.50. Reviewed by John Williams THIS is a good book—a fine introduction to a small community in the...
...its present political leaders (like Prime Minister Peter Fraser and Walter Nash, onetime N. Z. minister at Washington) are English born...
...they call the Chinese Chows and think of them as coolies and market gardeners, and they have carefully attempted to segregate the complex problem of the Maoris, the Polynesian natives of New Zealand...
...Reviewed by John Williams THIS is a good book—a fine introduction to a small community in the far south Pacific about which, most Americans have exaggerated or superficial ideas...
...Americans should take with heavy dashes of salt the senti- mental propaganda which overflows our news columns and radio networks today that New Zealanders are pro-American...
...New Zealand, a speck in the Pacific and in London's imperialism, has to obey orders...
...The...
...Economically and socially the country is based on an enlightened but sanctimonious capitalism, although there is widespread state ownership of utilities and transportation, state control of medicine and education...
...It should be required reading for every American Army, Navy, and civilian chair warmer in the Pacific...
...Beggars cannot be choosers...
...This "colonial" enterprise and foresight gave London's imperialists incipient apoplexy...
...Therefore they are anti-color...
...and secretly its representatives at the recent Imperial conference in London were told the real postwar score —empire super-solidarity under the implacable control of London...
...At the recent London conference the Anzac prime ministers were told to return home like good little imperialists and leave everything to crafty London's remote control...
...The Australian-born author sets the record 95 per cent straight honestly and pungently, and he lists excellent sources for extended study...
...Meet New Zealand - UNDERSTANDING NEW ZEALAND, by Frederick L. W. Wood...
...Author Wood does not attempt to mislead American readers about the New Zealand of today and tomorrow...
...Cordell Hull at Churchill's request obligingly told the Anzacs that (1) America would not accept the invitation to a regional conference because (2) America is opposed to regional conferences in wartime...
...With their neighbors the Australians, New Zealand-ers are the arch-imperialists of the imperialistic British empire...
...Yet Hull secretly has agreed with London and Moscow for the regional carving up of Europe with small fry like Finland and Poland being sacrificial lambs...
...He identifies, although too gently, the inner imperialistic hierarchy which really rules New Zealand...
...The chapter in this book on the Maoris and how they themselves solved the critical problems created by the steam roller of white man's civilization is sympathetically and cautiously written...
...New Zealanders are very pro-British...
...Anzac (Australian and New Zealand) governments early this year agreed to call a regional conference of interested governments to develop a good neighbor pattern for the West Pacific...
...New Zealand is heavily in debt to London ; its trade is cemented in English channels and empire monopolies...
Vol. 8 • October 1944 • No. 41
