Call Number:

CDG-A.American Committee for the Outlawry of War

Repository:

Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Extent:

0.25 linear ft. (2 folders)

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of item] in the American Committee for the Outlawry of War Collected Records (CDG-A), Swarthmore College Peace Collection.

Date:

1921-circa 1936 (inclusive)

Abstract:

In the New Republic for March 9, 1918, Salmon O. Levinson proposed that the nations delegalize war. John Dewey and Senator Borah soon rallied with him, and a little later John Haynes Holmes, Charles Clayton Morrison, and others joined them. The American Committee for the Outlawry of War (ACFOW) was the impersonal expression of Levinson, who made his campaign for outlawry nearly a fulltime occupation until it culminated in the signing of the Kellogg-Briand Pact on August 27, 1928 in Paris, France. The pact did not go far enough for Levinson and his ACFOW and their work continued - publicizing and lobbying. Based in Chicago, Illinois.