"The Enemy"
p. 65 · Read in the full issue
Who Is Really "The Enemy"
In Cook Islands?
THE untidy array of Commos, Pinks and Near-Pinks, who have been causing so much petty mischief in the Cook Islands lately, and who were routed on March 8 by a plane-load of mild young policemen from New Zea land, had been debating with some marks of favour a proposal that the United States be asked to take over the Cook Islands from New Zealand.
These are the same restless gentlemen who were stimulated and encouraged by a book recently published in New Zea land, called “Frontiers Forsaken.” It is an irresponsible, one-eyed compilation, which generally endorses the anti-Euro pean viewpoint of the CIPA. The fol lowing is an extract:— “The Cook Islands are our northern frontier.
If a country leaves its frontier forsaken for long enough, then powerful aggressors outside will start to move in, as the barbarians did on the old Roman Empire. And that is precisely what is happening in this case. In 1946 the United States began to put pressure on the British, Australian and New Zealand Govern ments to hand over, as strategic bases. 25 Pacific Islands. Of these, seven are NZ territory and four are in the Cook Group. A continued policy of muddle and drift not only means a con tinuation of injustice to the Islanders and loss to ourselves; it may well mean that the United States can bring their war preparations right to our door.”
According to “Frontiers Forsaken,” the Yanks are The Enemy. According to the CIPA, licking it wounds after March 8,
NZ is the enemy, and the Yanks the Saviours.
The Comrades do get their wires crossed on occasions.