Records, 1944-1952.

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Records, 1944-1952.

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Almost exclusively correspondence regarding post-war peace conferences sponsored by the World Order Movement; includes budgets and miscellaneous financial records, administrative papers, etc.

1 cubic ft.

Presbyterian Historical Society, PHS

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SNAC Resource ID: 8356906

Presbyterian Historical Society, PHS

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Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. World Order Movement

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The World Order Movement was instituted by the General Assembly (PCUSA) in 1944 to promote a churchwide educational campaign to address the problems of establishing and maintaining a durable peace based upon Christian principles. Acting through the Department of Social Education and Action of the Board of Christian Education, the Movement was based upon the belief that the Church's membership must endorse and support America's participation in a world organization if world peace was to be mainta...

United Nations

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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...