Journey towards world peace

" ... Brief history of the New Zealand Peace Council (NZPC) ...On 3 November 1948 a committee was formed in Auckland called the Anti-Conscription and Peace Council, later renamed the New Zealand Peace Council in 1950. Members from the foreign affairs sub-committees of the Trades Council's which formed branches of the World Peace Council in 1949 and members from the Peace and Anti Conscription movment (which for the most part went into recess in 1950), joined forces following a Peace Congress in 1951 in a reconstituted New Zealand Peace Council ..." -- Acknowledgements (Page 1).