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World's Court League Collected Records

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Call Number:
CDG-A.World's Court League
Repository:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Extent:
0.42 linear ft. (5 linear in.)
Language Note:
Materials in English
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of item], in the World Court's League, Inc. Collected Records (CDG-A), Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Date:
1915-1917 (inclusive)
Creator:
World's Court League
Abstract:
A short-lived organization that wished to develop a world's court of arbitration directly after World War I.

The object of a World Court was to settle international disputes through an International Court of Justice created by the nations of the world. The World's Court League, Inc. hoped to bring a plan for international arbitration into operation through diplomatic channels and the Third Hague Conference. It attempted to build a large popular movement that would support this undertaking. The organization held two peace conferences, in 1915 and 1916. Its office was in New York City, with William Howard Taft as the Honorary President and John Wesley Hill as the General Secretary.

The collection is made up of miscellaneous material gathered from various collections(?).

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Processed by Anne M. Yoder, Archivist, April 2017

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Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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Collection Inventory

By-laws; programmatic efforts.
Box 1
Governors' Board.
Box 1
Annual meeting of the Governors, December 29, 1915.
Box 1
Annual meeting of the Governors, May 23, 1916.
Box 1
Annual meeting of the Governors, May 1, 1917.
Box 1
Executive Committee.
Box 1
Finance Committee; fundraising.
Box 1
Publication Committee.
Box 1
Form letter questionnaire to peace societies re: their response to war, 1917 (December).
Box 1
Scope and Contents

includes replies

Reference material.
Box 1

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