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Peace and Disarmament Committee of the Women's International Organisations Collected Records, 1931-1940 (inclusive)

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0.42 linear ft. (5 linear in.)
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The Peace and Disarmament Committee of the Women's International Organisations was founded in 1931 (informally called the Women's Disarmament Committee). The PDCWIO was formed to promote the Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments and called itself the "greatest concerted action for peace ever undertaken by women".

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Denny Wilcher Collected Papers, 1941-1946 (inclusive)

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1.29 linear ft. (15.5 linear in.)
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This collection documents the experiences of Wilcher (and his friends), while in Civilian Public Service, and after he left CPS and was imprisoned at McNeil Island Federal Prison Camp.

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Reginald Reynolds Collected Papers, 1925-1955 (inclusive)

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.28 linear ft. (1 box)
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A British Quaker, author, journalist, field secretary for the Friends Service Committee, associate of Mohandas K. Gandhi, and conscientious objector during World War II.

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Anna B. Eckstein Collected Papers, 1886-1944 (bulk)

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0.83 linear ft. (10 linear in.)
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Born in Coburg, Germany, Anna B. Eckstein eventually became a naturalized American citizen and joined the Boston [Massachusetts] Peace Society. She became an ardent champion of world peace and gave numerous lectures and wrote many articles on peace problems of the United States and of Europe. Eckstein was a vice-president of the American Peace Society (1905-1911), and an honorary member of the Liberal Christian League in London and of many other social and education societies. She collected signatures for "The World Petition to Prevent War Between Nations" for The Hague Conventions. Eckstein had begun to prepare another petition for the 3rd Hague Conference for which she had some 6 million signatures when her efforts were ended by the advent of World War I. Her manuscript "The Will to Power Harmonized" was refused publication by Nazi authorities.

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Papers of Kirby Page from the Honnold Library (Claremont College, California), ca. 1920-1957 (bulk)

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1 reels (1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.)
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Includes documents about Kirby Page, Reinhold Niebuhr, Sherwood Eddy, the Fellowship for a Christian Social Order, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the Christian Way, Keep America Out of War, the Emergency Peace Campaign, conscientious objection, the World Court, socialism, and pacifism.

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James W. and Shelley Douglass Collected Papers, 1990- (bulk)

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0.17 linear ft. (2 linear inches.)
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Collection is primarily printed materials, including pamphlets, reprints, photocopies of interviews with and letters to various correspondents, including Ramsey Clark, Glenda Grabow, Pope John Paul II, and Cardinal Roger Etchegaray.

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