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Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University of Wellington Students' Association. Vol 40. No. 7. April 13 1977

Politics in the Peace Movement

Politics in the Peace Movement

Delegates to ICPA were lectured to by foreign guests that the great powers, the US and USSR, are de-escalating their confrontation. The SALT the concept of detente and doing the international peace circuit are all designed to push this great lie. No guests were present who openly challenged these stratagems.

Hinchcliff didn't want, "an ideological free for all." "Keep politics out of the. Deace movement," one might say. He criticises those who would, "foster the dangerous cold war mentality," and reveals his own ideology in doing so. At one and the same time is the view implied that wars are caused because of a lack of communication and understanding and yet he categorically denies any alternative political or organisational viewpoints.

The first proposition is palpably ridiculous. Wars are caused when governments understand only too well what their adversaries intend and stand for — not because they don't understand each other. The second proposition results in the real issues of war and peace being ignored for a phyrric and unproductive unity.

— Don Carson,

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