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Article: New Zealand's foreign and trade policy: past and present.
- Article from:
- New Zealand International Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 1997
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Richard Nottage looks back at percepyions of New Zealand and its foreign policy several decades ago and compares those outlooks with where things stand today.
In preparing for this speech, a dusty old tome was brought to my attention. It was a publication by the NZIIA from 1939 called Contemporary New Zealand. The description of New Zealand foreign and trade policy would bewilder any young or even not so young New Zealander. New Zealand was described by Dr J.C. Beaglehole in these words:
It is a Dominion in spite of itself. It
has not pursued with passionate
experimentation the idea of equal
nationhood; in the imperial ...