Collection, 1940-1941.

Swarthmore College. Peace Collection.

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No Foreign War Campaign Steering Committee.

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No Foreign War Committee.

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Emerging from a preliminary group called the No Foreign War Campaign Steering Committee, the No Foreign War Committee was a short-lived (December 1940-April 1941) organization which was the East Coast counterpart of the America First Committee. The No Foreign War Committee's chairman, Verne Marshall, had been the editor of the Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gazette. He was not a pacifist, and his assumption of the chairmanship of the group caused all of the original founders to resign and to disavow Marsha...

Marshall, Verne, 1889-1965

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Verne Marshall (1889-1965), journalist, was a volunteer ambulance driver in the French Army in 1916, and a Liberty Bond Drive speaker in the U.S. Army from 1917 to 1918. From 1919 to 1941 he was the managing editor and editor of the Cedar Rapids Gazette. He served as organizer and chairman of the No Foreign War Committee from 1940 to 1941, and from 1953 to 1957, worked as a columnist for the Marion (Iowa) Sentinel. From the description of Marshall, Verne, 1889-1965 (U.S. National Arc...