Thanks

Sir,—Thank you for the honour of being called "founder" of the Committee on Vietnam, but there were others responsible for the paternity of this lusty but illegitimate infant.

The Melser brothers, Jan McElwee, Nick Rosenberg and Adrian Webster set the Vietnam protest in motion on a momentous Easter in 1965 when they rallied a few friends, including me, to demonstrate to New Zealanders the implications behind Cabot Lodge's flying visit to New Zealand.

Incidentally, we were right—although the government denied it at the time, the visit was to ask for New Zealand troops to participate and hereby share the moral responsibility for a war most New Zealanders had barely noticed, let alone examined for justice or meaning.

So you might say the Melsers fostered the child. I was merely midwife, and not a very experienced or competent one.