New Zealand Peace Council records.

Collection

Identifier: MSS-Archives-A-287

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of Council minutes, correspondence, policy and press statements, and subject files.

Dates

1948 - 1971

Creator

New Zealand Peace Council (Organization)
Chandler, Charles Walker (Person)
Gould, Flora (Person)
New Zealand Peace and Anti-Conscription Federation (Organization)
Anti-Conscription & Peace Council (Organization)
Airey, W. T. G. (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Not restricted

Biographical / Historical

The Council was formed in November 1948 as the New Zealand Peace and Anti- Conscription Federation with the aim of arousing the people to struggle for peace and particularly against the threat of nuclear war. In May 1950 the organisation changed its name to the New Zealand Peace Council in line with the World Council of Peace. In 1965 the stated aims of the Council were:- The abolition of nuclear weapons; the right of countries to conduct their own affairs; an end to the was in Vietnam ...; an independent foreign policy for NZ. The Council remained in existence unit 1971. Both Professor Willis Airey and the Rev Dean Chandler were associated with the organisation.