"Whip them Along"

It is precisely here that these churchmen part company with our three local scribes.

They accuse the World Peace Council, or its "Communist sponsors," of attempting to compete with UN. How come the whole consummation of the Warsaw World Peace Congress last November was an "Address to the United Nations," expressing, to that body the views of the Congress on the best way to secure world peace? As Dean Chandler remarked (with suitable gestures) on the Wellington Town Hall platform on 17th April: "Our aim is not to supplant the United Nations, but to whip it along a bit."

The Dean's popularity throughout New Zealand is sufficient answer to the allegation that the World Peace movement has made little headway in this country. Truly, under 30,000 N.Z. signatures were obtained to the Stockholm Appeal: but the National Peace Congress in Auckland last month was a tremendous success—with 205 delegates representing 45,000 people. Bodies represented included many unions outside the Watersiders—Carpenters, Freezingworkers, Railway unions, the Post and Telegraph Association: Quakers, Christian Pacifist Society, and many individual clergymen of other denominations: the United Nations Association, the Pensioners' Association, and some LRC's (electorate councils of the Labour Party). I fear our defaming trio have heard but the beginning of the Peace Movement in New Zealand.