3 min silence for peace?

Press, 27 December 1985, Page 2

3 min silence for peace?

PA Wellington Celebrities ranging from the Pope and the Prime Minister, Mr Lange, to the Royal Shakespeare Company have been asked to observe three minutes silence for world peace on New Year’s Day. Mr Lange says he will personally try to observe the silence “and will bring it to the attention of my colleagues should the opportunity arise.” The observance is the brainchild of Miss Mary Cassini, of Pike’s Brewery, South Australia. . “This time of silence is for every one of us to think of the future and to wish for peace,” Miss Cassini said in a letter to a Wellington newspaper.

Miss Cassini has suggested the three minutes silence be observed at 11 a.m. local time on January 1, 1986. A similar suggestion for New Year’s Day, 1984, and again this year, met with great enthusiasm worldwide, said Miss Cassini. “This year hundreds of letters have again been sent. Cards describing World Silence have been distributed by a willing friend cycling through China. Another friend has placed cards throughout the Orient Express travelling across Europe,” she said. Cards in Arabic have been sent to Beirut and to the leaders of all Arab countries.