PLAN FOR PEACE

New Zealand Herald, Volume 80, Issue 24676, 31 August 1943, Page 2

PLAN FOR PEACE

TASK OF CHUKCHES CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Monday "It is realised that if peace is to be won there must be adequate preparation among all nations, victors and vanquished. Politicians no longer look with contempt at what the Churches ue doing They realise their work has to run on parallel lines," the Very Rev, A K. Warren, Dean of Christchurch. in an interview on his return from a seven weeks visit to the United States and Canada. Dean Warren was the delegate from the New Zealand National Council ol Churches to the International Round Table of Christian Leaders on Post-wai Reconstruction, held at Princeton New Jersey. Sixty-eight delegates, representing 12 countries, attended. "Post-war planning is a live question in the United States," said Dean Warren. "Numbers, of groups and individuals. both political and non-politi-cal have produced plans. In September' the United States Congress will vote on a resolution which has already won the unanimous support of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, recognising the need for international machinery for establishing and maintaining a just and durable peace. American churches have recently sent a peace programme, involving international collaboration and the establishment of an international political framework, to the British Council of Churches. This has been approved bv a group ol British leaders, including the Archbishop- ol Canterbury and York. "Plans are of little worth without the will of the people to put them into effect, so the Christian churches have a vital part to play in creating sound opinion when peace conferences come to be held. Nations will be war-weary and churches will have failed unless they have met the situation in advance."