Insincerity

The insincerity of Smith and his henchmen should now have been sufficiently known to the New Zealand Government. It should be equally known to the New Zealand Government that the more than 100,000 Africans held incommunicado by the Smith regime are hostages whose hope for freedom and abundant life is in the early eradication of the rule of privilege in Rhodesia.

The New Zealand United Nations delegation contended that the diplomatic and economic sanctions purportedly in force should not be prematurely disparaged. The very nature of their lack of speedy effect together with selectiveness of effect notably proves them inadequate for toppling the lunatic Smith regime. We regard the lives of the African people of Rhodesia and those of our white supporters as more important than the continuation, for any lengthy time, of the rebellious regime. The New Zealand Government was wrong to suggest that the invoking of Chapter Seven of the United Nations' Charter is to advocate violence.