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Haurongo: Rosenberg, Wolfgang

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A standing man speaks from a podium, beneath a poster bearing the words ‘International Conference Vietnam.’

Wolfgang Rosenberg was active in the peace movement from the Korean War onwards. Here he is photographed speaking about the Vietnam war and foreign policy at the 1968 Peace, Power and Politics conference in Wellington. ‘This is an historic occasion’, he said, ‘because for the first time in New Zealand history there is a substantial body of people who believe and think that the time has come for New Zealand’s foreign policy to divorce itself from the powers, minor powers or super powers, and that the time has come for New Zealand to decide her own foreign policy and her own destiny as a nation’. 

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Ross Webb. 'Rosenberg, Wolfgang', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 2025. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/node/232250 (accessed 4 June 2026).