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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 14, No. 7. June 25, 1951
[Introduction]
In the first article on the Peace Movement the organisation was dealt with, particularly up to the time of the Stockholm Appeal to Ban the Atom Bomb. The war in Korea brought new activities in the Peace Movement, and this article, besides detailing Who's Who and What's What, deals with more recent developments up to the New Zealand Peace Congress held in Auckland in May.
It has been shown previously that the Peace Movement is plainly linked to current Soviet foreign policy, and that the Atom Bomb Appeal was designed in such a way that it helped in the softening of Western resistance to the Soviet.
The early association of Victoria with WFDY and IUS has been mentioned but it so happened that VUCSA and NZUSA broke with these bodies before the latest and most energetic efforts of the Peace Movement, particularly over Korea.
In the past year the Stockholm Appeal has spread the world over, there has been the Warsaw (ex Sheffield) Peace Congress, and the February meeting in Berlin of the World Peace Council, attended by Dean Chandler of Hamilton.
We now see the World Peace Council not only as a rival to the United Nations, but as Dean Chandler put it at Victoria, attempting to "bring UN back to its first principles."
Who then arc the people who run this astonishing instrument of Soviet foreign policy? Why should we accuse the organisers of the Peace Movement of bad faith and say that their expressed desire for peace is not as genuine as our claims in the United Nations?
We have as a beginning this statement of Lenin's which is quoted by Stalin in "Problems of Leninism."