Ernest W. Lefever papers 1933-2007

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Ernest W. Lefever papers 1933-2007

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Writings, correspondence, interview summaries, notes, printed matter, and photographs,relating to pacifism in World War II, postwar African politics, United Nationsintervention in the Congo, nuclear proliferation, American military and police-trainingaid to foreign countries, the role of religion in public policy, and activities of theEthics and Public Policy Center.

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Lefever, Ernest W. (1919- ).

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Ernest Warren Lefever was born on November 12, 1919, in York, Pennsylvania. He was educated at Elizabethtown College, where he graduated with an A.B. in 1942. In 1945, he received a B.D. from Yale University, where he continued to study, receiving a Ph.D. in 1956. Lefever has worked in international affairs for nearly his entire life, beginning in the years following World War II, when he was a field secretary in Europe for the World's Alliance of YMCAs. Over the course of the next two decades, ...

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In 1945, four individuals who had worked on the Manhattan project-John L. Balderston, Jr., Dieter M. Gruen, W.J. McLean, and David B. Wehmeyer-formed a committee and wrote a letter to 154 public figures asking for their opinions about the possibility of the creation of a world government. Over the next year, as the various public figures responded to the letter, the responses were correlated into a report that was released in 1947. From the guide to the Balderston, John L., Jr. Colle...