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New Zealand sacks diplomat over comments critical of Trump's understanding of World War II history

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Phil Goff, New Zealand's high commissioner to the United Kingdom, was removed from his position after drawing parallels between US President Donald Trump's stance on the war in Ukraine and the 1938 Munich Agreement, which allowed Nazi Germany to annex parts of Czechoslovakia. Goff made the comparison during a forum in London, citing Winston Churchill's speech to the House of Commons in 1938. New Zealand's office of Foreign Minister Winston Peters declared Goff's position "untenable".

  1. NZ
    Phil Goff
    Labour Party
    1. I was re-reading Churchill's speech to the House of Commons in 1938 after the Munich Agreement, and he turned to Chamberlain, he said, 'You had the choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour, yet you will have war,'
  2. NZ
    Winston Peters
    New Zealand First
    1. They do not represent the views of the NZ government and make his position as high commissioner to London untenable.
    2. When you're in that position, you represent the views of the government and the policies of the day – you're not able to free-think, you are the face of New Zealand.
    3. We cannot have people making comments which impinge upon our very future – no matter what the country is, whether it's Niue, Samoa, Tonga, Japan or, dare I say it, the United States.

sources

  1. 1.The Guardian
  2. 2.ABC News (Australia)
  3. 3.Al Jazeera
  4. 4.The Times of India
  5. 5.Guardian
  6. 6.Reuters

perspectives

  1. 1.US under Donald Trump
  2. 2.Chinese Foreign Policy
  3. 3.Chinese relations with Australia and NZ
  4. 4.New Zealand under Christopher Luxon
  5. 5.New Zealand Foreign Policy
  6. 6.US-New Zealand relations

countries

  1. 1.GermanyDE
  2. 2.FinlandFI
  3. 3.United KingdomGB
  4. 4.JapanJP
  5. 5.New ZealandNZ
  6. 6.Russian FederationRU
  7. 7.TongaTO
  8. 8.UkraineUA
  9. 9.United StatesUS
  10. 10.SamoaWS

organizations

  1. 1.Chatham HouseGB
  2. 2.House of Commons
  3. 3.Labour Party
  4. 4.Māori
  5. 5.New Zealand First
  6. 6.North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

persons

  1. 1.Phil GoffNZ
  2. 2.Elina ValtonenFI
  3. 3.Neville Chamberlain
  4. 4.Donald TrumpUS
  5. 5.Helen ClarkNZ
  6. 6.Winston Churchill
  7. 7.Winston PetersNZ
  8. 8.Adolf Hitler
  9. 9.Bede Corry
  10. 10.Belinda Jiao
  11. 11.Christopher LuxonNZ
  12. 12.Jacinda Ardern

technicals

  1. 1.Munich Agreement
  2. 2.Nazism
  3. 3.Oval Office
  4. 4.Munich Security Conference
  5. 5.World War II
New Zealand sacks diplomat over comments critical of Trump's understanding of World War II history