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| Description | Correspondence between Ethel Froud and A. Muriel Pierotti (NUWT), Emily Phipps (NUWT), Theodora Bonwick (NUWT), the Women's International League, the British Council of Churches Inter-Church Aid and Refugee Service, the Foreign Office, Peoples Congress for Peace, the Parliamentary Pacifist Group, the Daily Worker, and the 'No More War movement', regarding arguments and actions for and against peace and disarmament.
The correspondence covers:
The arms race and proliferation of nuclear weapons
Particulars of various peace movements, information collated for NUWT Central Council meeting
NUWT representation at various conferences calling for peace (pamphlets with information on the conferences are usually included)
Invitation to, and information on, a conference 'Co-existence of Arms Race?'
Information on an International Youth Conference for Peace, 1936
Reports of sessions held at a National Peace Congerss in Oxford, 1933
Receptions and dinners to honour people who campaigned for peace, including Viscount Robert Cecil who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1937
Statistics on the cost of armament
Concerns about the effects of war films on the general public
The work of the British Council of Churches Inter-Church Aid and Refugee Service
NUWT support and representation at events to aid the suffering of victims of war
Enrollment of women in the Women's Reserve of the Royal Army Pay Reserve
Publications and reports including:
'Against the scourge of hunger, ignorance, disease and war', Thirteenth Annual Report of the United Nations Association
'Can we rid the world of war?', Eleanor Acland, Peacemaker's Pilgrimage Committee
'A Speech by the Prime Minister, the Right Honourable Winston Churchill in the House of Commons', 20/08/1940
Press cuttings regarding:
Arguments for and against disarmament
League of Nations
Reports of demonstrations calling for peace
Effects of war films on British audiences
'World Messenger of Youth', Bulletin produced in Paris, March 1936
'The New World - the Journal of the No More War Movement', issues from: November 1926; December 1929; April 1931
'War films and World Peace', National Council for Prevention of War, 1928 |