Miscellaneous papers of Jean-Philippe Inebnit relating to the International Voluntary Service for Peace, the United Nations, the United Nations Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Society of Friends, summer camps, etc. 19--

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Miscellaneous papers of Jean-Philippe Inebnit relating to the International Voluntary Service for Peace, the United Nations, the United Nations Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Society of Friends, summer camps, etc. 19--

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The Society of Friends (or 'Quakers') was formed by George Fox (1624-1691), a shoemaker from Nottingham. In the 1640s Fox travelled throughout England delivering sermons in which he argued that individuals could have direct access to God without the need for churches, priests or other aspects of the established Church. Fox's followers became known as the 'Friends of Truth' and later the 'Society of Friends'. Fox developed rules for the management of meetings, which were printed as 'Friends Fello...

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Formed in 1945 out of the League of Nations Union, to "help bring about a just, ordered and lasting peace, and better conditions of life for all mankind" ; office was in London; early leadership included Viscount Cecil, C.R. Attlee, Violet Bonham Carter, Winston Churchill, and Gilbert Murray; in 1946 the name of the organization was expanded to include "of Great Britain and Northern Ireland"; works to ensure that the United Nations is effective, efficient and creative in all the areas on which i...

Inebnit, Jean-Philippe.

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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...