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Communities to include Britain and the other
applicants will bring New Zealand opportunities,
including opportunities in the agricultural
sphere. You are such a very efficient farming
community, and your climate is so ideal for
pastoral farming, that some of your key exports r
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may well find valuable new outlets.
8. In your exposition of New Zealand's
economic relationship with Britain you are right
to stress the historical background, and right
also, I think, to stress the other links which
make our relationship an enduringly close one.
I hope you will not mind if, in conclusion,
I also make one or two historical observations
to explain why, after ten years of striving to
join the suropean Communities, our resolve to
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succeed if terms
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remains as strong and indeed even stronger
than ever before.
9. Britain is a major European country.
That statement could be simply a definition of
geographical location. But it is not. Nor
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is it just an expression of the ties of od
and culture which link us and you to the Con-
tinent of Europe. New Zealand, like Britain,
is the heir of that wider culture. In addition
to all this, Britain has played a major role
in continental politics in virtually every
century since the Dark Ages.
a period of glorious isolation.
There never was
The reason
for this is simple. As New Zealanders who
came so heroically to our aid in two European
seunty
wars know only too well, Britain's safety
been directly liked
has always
with
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opended primarily on the Continent.
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