People Want Peace

There are two lines of thought here; first that the Soviet is the guardian of peace against the warlike capitalist world, and secondly that the desires of the ordinary people for peace could be worked on and subverted to the detriment of any Western resistance (both moral and military) to Soviet plans. The finished plan of the campaign came out in August, 1948, at Wroclaw (formerly Breslau) in Poland.

The "World Congress of Intellectuals" called at the invitation of a group of French and Polish intellectuals met at Wroclaw in August, 1948, and those present included many who were not Communists or Communist sympathisers, but who had come from motives of idealism and humanity. Many British delegates spoke angrily against the Communist manipulation of pacific ideals for political ends, but the out come of the conference fitted in exactly with the Cominform project of the previous year.

The Congress agreed that "National Peace Committees of Intellectuals" should be set up. These include the British Cultural Committee for Peace (later shortened to the British Peace Committee) which was formed by a scientific journalist. J. G. Crowther, who recently visited New Zealand.