Women's International League for Peace and Freedom papers, 1915-1998.

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Women's International League for Peace and Freedom papers, 1915-1998.

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Includes the organization's records, correspondence, meeting minutes and reports, headquarters papers, and official resolutions; Triennial Congress proceedings, files, and reports; national section files and correspondence; country files; biographical materials and correspondence of members; materials on topics and issues in peace and human rights; materials concerning other peace organizations and their initiatives, including the United Nations; WILPF and non-WILPF publications.

240.5 linear ft.

University of Colorado, Boulder

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University of Colorado, Boulder

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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...

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

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WILPF developed out of the International Women's Congress against World War I that took place in The Hague, Netherlands, in 1915 and the formation of the International Women's Committee of Permanent Peace; the name WILPF was not chosen until 1919. The first WILPF president, Jane Addams, had previously founded the Woman's Peace Party in the United States, in January 1915, this group later became the US section of WILPF. Along with Jane Addams, Marian Cripps and Margaret E. Dungan were also foundi...