Committee on the Cause and Cure of War.

In 1924 Carrie Chapman Catt convinced nine of the leading national U.S. women's oganizations of the need for a conference on the cause and cure of war. The Committee on the Cause and Cure of War was founded at a meeting in Washington in 1925. CCC served as chair until 1932, and as honorary chair thereafter.

The CCCW was composed of organizations of educated women who attempted to understand the causes of war, rather than protest against it. They wrote letters to members of Congress, gave lectures, and organized petitions and study groups known as "Round Tables." In 1940, the CCCW changed its name to the Women's Action Committee for Victory and Lasting Peace, which after World War II became the Committee on Education for Lasting Peace. Its "General Information" sheet stated that the "problem of the peace movement is less to overcome outspoken and convinced opposition than to arouse inert masses of people to a sense of responsibility for the elimination of war."

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