Records, 1930-1937.

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Records, 1930-1937.

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Records include minutes (1930-1936), reports of committees, resolutions, correspondence (1930-1936), financial records, membership lists, petitions, pamphlets, radio speeches, and scrapbooks. Subject files include William I. Hull's reports from the Geneva Disarmament Conference (1932), information on pending state and federal legislation, and data on the munitions industry, as well as plays on the theme of disarmament. Correspondents include: William I. Hull, Sophia H. Dulles, Mary Winsor, Eliza M. Cope, William Eves III, Edward N. Wright, Brent D. Allinson, Carolyn Lexow Babcock, H. Runham Brown, Elinor Byrns, Lucy A. Cox, Constance Drexel, Dorothy Detzer, Lynn J. Frazier, Lindley V. Gordon, William B. Harvey, Darlington Hooper, Frieda Langer Lazarus, Jennie Lee, Frederick J. Libby, Alfred Lief, Ray Newton, Vincent D. Nicholson, John Nevin Sayre, Tucker P. Smith, Walter W. Van Kirk, Oswald Garrison Villard, Lydia G. Wentworth, H. Justice Williams, and E. Raymond Wilson.

8.75 linear ft.

Swarthmore College, Peace Collection, SCPC

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SNAC Resource ID: 6998615

Swarthmore College, Peace Collection, SCPC

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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 ...

Harvey, William Brinton, 1862-,

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Smith, Tucker B.

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Allinson, Brent D. (Brent Dow)

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Brent Dow Allinson; conscientious objector, pacifist, author, poet; court martialed in 1918 from the US Army in World War I; served two years of hard labor and released in 1920. From the description of Brent Dow Allinson collected papers, 1918-1920. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 771930632 ...

Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949

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Epithet: US journalist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000429.0x000092 Villard, a journalist and author, was president of the New York Evening Post (1897-1918), editor and owner of The Nation (1918-1932), publisher and contributing editor of The Nation (1932-1935), a founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and of Yachting Magazine, and owner of the Nautical Gazette. His father ...

Brockway, Fenner, 1888-1988

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Lord Fenner Brockway (1888-1988) was Editor of The Labour Leader, the official organ of the Independent Labour Party, an active campaigner against the First World War, and Secretary of the No-Conscription Fellowship. He was court-martialled at Chester and imprisoned at Wormwood Scrubs, Wandsworth, and Lincoln until 1919. From the guide to the Interview with Fenner Brockway, 1975, (GB 206 Leeds University Library) ...

Wright, Edward Needles, 1897-

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Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970

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Clergyman and pacifist; died 1970. From the description of Frederick Joseph Libby papers, 1846-1973 (bulk 1890-1970). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70982364 Biographical Note 1874, Nov. 24 Born, Richmond, Maine 1894 Bachelor of arts, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine ...

Gordon, Lindley V.,

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Lee, Jennie, 1904-....

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Epithet: politician Title: Baroness Lee of Asheridge British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000472.0x00012f ...

Newton, Ray, 1927-

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Dulles, Sophia H.

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Frazier, Lynn J. (Lynn Joseph), 1874-1947

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Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977

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Episcopalian minister, pacifist and internationalist; staff member of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, American Section, 1924-1967, served as chair, 1935-1940; worked with the International Fellowship of Reconciliation and served as chair, 1935-1955; served as editor of The World Tomorrow (1922-1924) and Fellowship magazine 1940-1945); a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union and the Committee on Militarism in Education. From the description of Papers, 1885-1982 1922-1967 (bu...

Wentworth, Lydia G., 1858-

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B. 1858; author; advocate for pacifism, socialism, and feminism; lived most of her life in Brookline, Massachusetts; d. 1947. From the description of Papers, 1902-1947 1918-1947 (bulk). (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 20661572 ...

Babcock, Caroline L. (Caroline Lexow), 1882-

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Caroline Lexow Babcock (b. Feb. 5, 1882, Nyack, NY–d. March 8, 1980, Nyack, NY). The daughter of legislator Clarence Lexow, she graduated Barnard College in 1904. She became executive secretary to Harriot Stanton Blatch at the Women's Political Union. Babcock also served as president of the College Equal Suffrage League of New York, executive secretary of the National College Equal Suffrage League, served on the executive committee and board of directors of the Birth Control Federation of Americ...

Hull, William Isaac, 1868-1939

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William I. Hull, a Quaker pacifist, taught history at Swarthmore College from 1892 until his death in 1939. He was the Librarian of Friends Historical Library and also authored numerous books and articles, particularly on the subjects of Quakers in Holland, William Penn, peace, and international relations. Hull was born in Baltimore, attended Friends' schools and John Hopkins University, and married Hannah Hallowell Clothier in 1898. From the description of Papers, 1892-1939. (Swarth...

Lazarus, Frieda Langer

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Frieda Langer Lazarus (1896-1968) was an antiwar activist. She was a member of the Women's Peace Union and the War Resisters League. From the description of Frieda Langer Lazarus papers, 1932-1949. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 86164313 Frieda Langer Lazarus, born in New York to Polish parents in 1896, was an antiwar activist and advocate for conscientious objectors. In the early 1940s she was a founder of the Metropolit...

Lief, Alfred, 1901-1971

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Pennsylvania Committee for Total Disarmament.

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Organized for the purpose of promoting legislation for universal disarmament; active from 1930 to 1936, chiefly in and around Philadelphia; William I. Hull, professor of international relations at Swarthmore College served as chairman; Sophia H. Dulles was executive secretary; Mary Winsor, Eliza M. Cope, William Eves III and Edward N. Wright were among the most active members, many of whom were Quakers. From the description of Records, 1930-1937. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection...

Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981

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Van Kirk, Walter W. (Walter William), 1891-1956

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Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments (1932-1934 : Geneva, Switzerland)

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The Conference was initiated by the League of Nations, partly as a result of the 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, which had condemned the use of force to resolve disputes. The Conference discussed the question of universal reduction and limitation of all types of armaments. More than 60 governments sent representatives. After long negotiations and many proposals, the conference was dissolved in deadlock. (C.f. World Encyclopedia of Peace, entry for World Disarmament Conference). Although formally calle...

Hoopes, Darlington, 1896-

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Darlington Hoopes was a lawyer and Socialist Party official of Reading, Pennsylvania. From the description of Darlington Hoopes papers, 1887-1964 (bulk 1923-1964). (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 156573671 ...

Cope, Eliza Middleton Kane, approximately 1862-1952

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Drexel, Constance

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Nicholson, Vincent D. (Vincent De Witt), 1890-1945

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Williams, Henry Justice

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Winsor, Mary, 1869-1956

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Mary Winsor (1869, Haverford, PA-d. Sept. 10, 1956, Philadelphia, PA) was from a prominent family from Haverford. She studied at Bryn Mawr, Radcliff, and the Drexel Institute. Winsor was a militant campaigner for women's suffrage. She became president of the Pennsylvania Limited Suffrage League (1910) and was also involved in the birth control movement. She was jailed several times while protesting suffrage....

Wilson, E. Raymond (Edward Raymond), 1896-1987

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E. Raymond Wilson (1896-1987), Quaker peace lobbyist, helped found the Friends Committee on National Legislation in 1943 and served as its Executive Secretary until 1962. He also helped organize the Committee on Militarism in Education in 1925. From 1931 to 1943, he served as Field and Education Secretary of the Peace Section of the American Friends Service Committee. He was the author of two books, Uphill for Peace and Quaker Impact on Congress. From the description of Papers concer...

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 ...

Cox, Lucy A. ,

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Eves, William,

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