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League to Enforce Peace Collected Records

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Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore 19081-1399

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Swarthmore College Peace Collection. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
CDG-A.League to Enforce Peace
Repository:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Extent:
0.42 linear ft. (5 linear in.)
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of item] in the League to Enforce Peace Collected Records (CDG-A), Swarthmore College Peace Collection.
Date:
1915-1921 (inclusive)
Creator:
League to Enforce Peace (U.S.)
Abstract:
The League was formed in 1915 at a conference held at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. It worked for a league of nations, a world court, and mandatory international conciliation.

The League was formed in 1915 at a conference held at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. It worked for a league of nations, a world court, and mandatory international conciliation. Its president was William Howard Taft and other leaders included Hamilton Holt and Theodore Marburg. When the U.S. entered WWI, the League adopted a "win-the-war" program. Pacifist groups shunned the LTEP, believing that peace could not be obtained through coercion. However, the LTEP was given credit for influencing President Wilson and others to support the formation of the League of Nations.

Includes materials on the Atlantic Congress for a League of Nations (February 5-6, 1919) and National Congress for a League of Nations (1919).

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the records of this organization.

Acquisitions information is unknown.

Processed by SCPC staff. Checklist created by Anne M. Yoder, Archivist, January 1999.

For the catalog record for this collection, and to find materials on similar topics, search the library's online catalog.

  1. National Committee on the Churches and the Moral Aims of the War Collected Records (CDG-A)
  2. Massachusetts Joint Committee for a League of Nations Collected Records (CDG-A)
  3. New York Peace Society IV Collected Records (CDG-A)

  1. Coated paper banner ("A League of Free Nations: Peace on Earth Good Will to Men," Christmas 1918) removed to Cloth Items Collection
  2. Newsletter "Bulletin" removed to the Periodical Collection

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Publisher
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research use.

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Use Restrictions

None.

Collection Inventory

General; historical material.
Box 1
Program work and correspondence, 1915.
Box 1
Conference in Independence Hall, Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), 1915 (June 17).
Box 1
Program work and correspondence, 1916.
Box 1
First Annual National Assemblage, Washington (DC), 1916 (May 26 - 27).
Box 1
Program work and correspondence, 1917-1918.
Box 1
National Convention, Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), 1918 (May 16 - 18).
Box 1
Program work and correspondence, 1919.
Box 1
National Congress for a League of Nations, Boston (Massachusetts), 1919 (February 7 - 8).
Box 1
Program work and correspondence, 1920 - 1921, undated.
Box 1
Branches: Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.
Box 1
Publications: Pamphlet series; newsletter "The League Bulletin".
Box 1

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