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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 25. No. 13. 1962

[introduction]

The New Zealand Government has made it clear on many occasions that it understands and appreciates the motives, political as well as economic, which have persuaded Britain that she should seek membership of the European Economic Community. But the Government has also made clear that, if Britain pursues I hat course without securing adequate safeguards for New Zealand's vital economic interested the threat to New Zealand economy would be of such a nature and on such a scale as to warrant the use of the word "disaster." In general it is true to in. that New Zealand is so preoccupied with immediate and concrete economic dangers that it is hardly in a position to concern Itself very actively with more distant possibilities such as the possible political or long-term economic implications of British entry. Inevitably, we have had to concentrate our attention, and our resources, on the grave problems immediately before us.