Collected records, 1923-1984.

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Collected records, 1923-1984.

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Scattered minutes (1929-1947), correspondence (1925-1948) with affiliated U.S. groups including War Resisters League and Women's Peace Union, form letters and memoranda sent to members of WRI international council and to sections in various countries, periodicals and other publications, press releases, lists of imprisoned war resisters, and peace buttons. Includes materials relating to WRI's opposition to war and organized violence and promotion of nonviolent resistance to bring about change. Correspondents include WRI staff members Grace M. Beaton and H. Runham Brown, and Elinor Byrns, Jessie Wallace Hughan, Abraham Kaufman, and Frances Rose Ransom.

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Swarthmore College, Peace Collection, SCPC

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Swarthmore College, Peace Collection, SCPC

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Brown, H. Runham (Herbert Runham), 1879-1949

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Secretary of the War Resisters' International. From the description of Letter : Enfield, Middlesex, to Laurence Housman, Street, Somerset, 1938 Dec. 19 and 1939 Jan. 20. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 25286037 ...

War Resisters' International

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Founded in 1921 as Paco; in 1923, name changed to War Resisters' International; acts as a coordinating body for pacifist individuals and organizations throughout the world. From the description of Records, 1921- (bulk) 1923-1949, 1960-1976. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 28415185 Founded in 1921 as Paco; 1923 name changed to War Resisters' International. From the description of Collected records, 1923-1984. (Swarthmore College, Peace ...

Women's Peace Union

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The Women's Peace Union (WPU), founded in 1921, was a national organization committed to personal refusal to support war and to promote legislation outlawing war. The WPU was in favor of total independent disarmament by the U.S. and its main program was the passage of a constitutional amendment, known as the Independent Disarmament Amendment, which would make war, preparation for war or appropriations for war illegal. The WPU ceased operations in 1940. From the guide to the Women's P...

Byrns, Elinor

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Lawyer, active in Women's Peace Society. From the description of Letter : New York, to Laurence Housman, Street, Somerset, 1938 June 21. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 25286058 ...

Kaufman, Abraham

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Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955

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Jessie Wallace Hughan, educator, pacifist and socialist, helped to establish the Anti-Enlistment League (1915), belonged to the Fellowship of Reconciliation, and assisted in the founding of the War Resisters League, for which she worked throughout her life. From the description of Collection, 1905-1955. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 28297239 ...

Beaton, Grace M.

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Ransom, Frances Rose

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War Resisters League

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The War Resisters League (WRL) was established in 1923 through the initiative of Jessie Wallace Hughan. It began as an organization for men and women willing to sign a pledge refusing to support war of any kind. During World War II, it lent both moral and legal support to conscientious objectors, especially absolute pacifists who refused to participate even in civilian alternative service, often for reasons other than religious beliefs. In 1968, the WRL merged with the Committee for Nonviolent A...