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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 14, No. 1. February 28, 1951
[Introduction]
"Mr. John Foster Dulles is in many ways a dangerous man," said the Right Reverend E. H. Burgmann, Bishop of Canberra and Goulburn, rebuking the Australian Council for the World Council of Churches for extending fraternal greetings to Dulles on the occasion of his visit to Australia. "He is probably an honest Christian, but we don't want to commit this country to anything he does, or any of his political ideas. We don't want to commit this Council to anything in the way of U.S. national politics at present, or we will get our fingers burned."
It is common knowledge that the purpose of his visit to Australia and New Zealand is to erase bitter memories of the last war from the popular mind, as a preparation for the rearming of Japan. In the "Dominion" of February 15 he is quoted as saying, "I consider that there is a good probability that Japan can become a good neighbour to us in the Pacific, and a bulwark against the rising threat of Soviet and Chinese communism.'"
Mr. Dulles is an old hand at building bulwarks against communism, and against the independence of Asian peoples.