No "Penny-In-Slot" Ticket To Peace In World
The attitude that since United Nations existed all one had to do was drop a penny in the slot and out would come peace, was very prevalent in New Zealand, said the annual report of the Wellington branch of the United Nations Association of New Zealand. •
Peace, the report continued, was not the absence of war: it was something constructive in its own right and would come only when the common people of the world really wanted peace so intensely that they would work for it as hard as they ever worked for victory in war. _ Contrarv to general belief politicians made neither wars nor peace unless the people wanted them.
If the common man wanted peace he must be in a position to tell his politicians so, and also in such a position that his politicians would listen to him. It was for that purpose of peace that the United Nations Association existed, said the report, in calling on lovers of peace to ioin the association.
During the last year 50 members joined the Wellington branch, making a total membership of 211.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 15118, 29 October 1949, Page 3
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