Independence for New Zealand?

Dr. Evatt has suggested that Australia shoud embark on an independent foreign policy with a neutralist slant. Is this not a suitable line for New Zealand, too? In the thermo-nuclear age, we still cling to outmoded defence and foreign relations concepts, which clamp us in the vice of one of the big armed camps which threaten the peace of the world. An independent block, initiated by like-minded neutralists inside the British Commonwealth with nothing to gain by war, would gradually attract many smaller nations and give them the voice which Evatt and Fraser hoped U.N. would give them.