Objection To Use Of Term ‘Peaceniks’

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31094, 24 June 1966, Page 1

Objection To Use Of Term ‘Peaceniks’

(New Zealand Preet Aseociation)

AUCKLAND, June 23.

A member of the Auckland Synod accused a Cabinet Minister today of trying to bring “discredit without rational examination” on people who pressed for peace without force by calling them “peaceniks.”

Speaking to a motion to abolish war, the Rev. A. H. Johnston did not name the Minister, but said that the word was “contemptuous and wholly emotive.” “The pity is that it seems

too often that any attempts towards peace are labelled as ‘Communist’ in the same way,” he said. The resolution, moved by Mr C. H. Rosenfeldt, recommended “that Synod supports in principle the resolution of the Lambeth Conference that war, as a method of settling international disputes, is incompatible with the teaching of Our Lord, Jesus Christ, and declares that nothing less than abolition of war itself should be the goal of the nations, their leaders and citizens.”

Before being approved, the motion was amended to include demands for New Zealand to increase its aid to under-developed countries and to encourage New Zealand businessmen to assist in their economic development.