Abstract

Peace, Power and Politics in Asia

In the first week of April a conference was held in Wellington, New Zealand, under the title "Peace, Power and Politics." It was subtitled a "National Conference on Vietnam, SEATO and Political Stability in Asia." "Asia," to New Zealanders as to Australians, tends to mean east Asia, and in particular Southeast Asia. As the conference coincided in dates very closely with the Ministerial Council of the South East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO), held just up the street in the New Zealand Parliament House, it was widely supposed that the Peace, Power and Politics (PPP) conference had been called as a counter demonstration. However, the PPP organizers had planned to get their conference together when they had raised the necessary money, a factor at first highly conjectural.