MELBOURNE: Dr. Jim Cairns MHR was elected as the new chairman of the
Congress for International Co-operationand Disarmament at the annual meeting
last week.
He replaced the Rev. Alf Dickie, who had been chairman of CICD since its formation in 1959. Mr. Dickie did not seek re-election, and was made a life member.
Warm tributes were paid to his services to the peace movement by Dr. Cairns and Mr. Sam Goldbloom.
One of the new committee members to be elected was Bob States, one of the three draft resisters currently serving an 18 month prison term in Pentridge jail. The newly-elected committee was directed to initiate and support actions in solidarity with the imprisoned draft resisters in Victorian jails, who are at present Bob Scates, Ken McClelland, and Ian Turner.
Harry van Moorst, who recently returned from the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, presented CICD with a vase made from an anti-aircraft shell casing and parts of American planes shot down over Vietnam. He passed on the gift from the Hanoi Peace Committee as a mark of their appreciation for the work of CICD and the Australian anti-war movement in opposing foreign intervention in Vietnam.
Congress for International Co-operationand Disarmament at the annual meeting
last week.
He replaced the Rev. Alf Dickie, who had been chairman of CICD since its formation in 1959. Mr. Dickie did not seek re-election, and was made a life member.
Warm tributes were paid to his services to the peace movement by Dr. Cairns and Mr. Sam Goldbloom.
One of the new committee members to be elected was Bob States, one of the three draft resisters currently serving an 18 month prison term in Pentridge jail. The newly-elected committee was directed to initiate and support actions in solidarity with the imprisoned draft resisters in Victorian jails, who are at present Bob Scates, Ken McClelland, and Ian Turner.
Harry van Moorst, who recently returned from the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, presented CICD with a vase made from an anti-aircraft shell casing and parts of American planes shot down over Vietnam. He passed on the gift from the Hanoi Peace Committee as a mark of their appreciation for the work of CICD and the Australian anti-war movement in opposing foreign intervention in Vietnam.
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