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In September 1921, representatives of seventeen national organizations met in Washington, D.C. to organize the National Council for Limitation of Armaments. Their purpose was to promote the soon to be held Washington Conference on Limitation of Armaments, and to make an effort to curb the race to build ships for the U.S. Navy. The Council had no individual memberships but was a clearinghouse for national peace organizations, and a way of helping them to work together. The Council aimed for the substitution of law for war as a method of settling international differences. Through its member organizations the Council represented the overwhelming sentiment of the people of the United States in favor of reducing armaments.
In Oct. 1921, Frederick J. Libby (FJL) was appointed Executive Secretary of this newly formed organization. Libby was born in Maine, the son of a country doctor. He graduated from Bowdoin College at age twenty and taught school for a few years before furthering his studies at the universities of Berlin, Heidelberg, Marburg and Oxford. Libby went on to earn his B.D. at Andover Theological Seminary. He then served seven years as a Congregational minister in Magnolia, MA and seven more as a teacher at Phillips Exeter Academy. During World War I, Libby, already a convinced pacifist, traveled overseas for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) as a relief and reconstruction worker. He later became the American Commissioner for the AFSC in Europe. Libby's experience with the aftermath of war convinced him to became a Quaker in 1921, and he spent the rest of his life trying to prevent wars.
With a staff of two, Frederick Libby set up an office for the National Council for Limitation of Armaments in the parlor of the Eye Street Friends Meeting House, in Washington, D.C., in the fall of 1921. A few weeks later the office was moved to a large historic house at 532 17th Street, N.W. When the Washington Conference convened that Nov., Libby and his staff arranged International Forums, at which eminent persons attending the Washington Conference were invited to speak. In Jan. 1922, the name of the organization was changed to the National Council for the Reduction of Armaments. The following Fall, when it was decided that the organization would operate permanently, the name National Council for Prevention of War (NCPW) was chosen. In 1931, the NCPW incorporated under the laws of the District of Columbia. From limitation of armaments, its purpose crystallized into a three-fold program: progressive world organization; worldwide reduction of armaments by international agreement; and, worldwide education for peace.
Under Libby's direction, the NCPW extended its scope and influence into every state in the U.S., and was a center for the distribution of peace information to the thirty-two national organizations affiliated with it. Branch offices were established in San Francisco, CA, Louisville, KY, Portland, OR, Springfield, MA, and Des Moines, IA. The Washington, D.C. office grew rapidly as new departments were added: Education and a Speakers Bureau in 1921; Legislative in 1922; National Student Forums in 1925; a Farm Department in 1929; Youth Movement for World Recovery in 1930; and Labor, Press, and Moving Picture Departments in 1934-1935. Herbert Wilton Stanley wrote in the American Mercury in 1936: "It is no exaggeration to describe the Council as the most effective peace agency in America today." This was the NCPW's peak year with sixty-one full-time workers; Peace Action, the NCPW's major periodical, had a circulation of 25,000; there were nearly 2,500 speeches delivered; and, over one-and-one-half million pieces of peace literature of all sorts were distributed.
Beginning in Dec. 1921, when the call went out "to make this a great peace Christmas," campaign followed campaign. NCPW first tried to obtain ratification of the treaties resulting from the Washington Conference on Limitation of Armaments. The organization next tackled the "No More War" campaign of 1922; "Law - Not War" Days in 1923-1925; and "America First," in 1924. The successful "To Chicago" Plan, organized by Jeannette Rankin, the NCPW's first lobbyist, and Florence Boeckel, its Education Director, took carloads of peace workers from all over the country to both Republican and Democratic national party conventions. The NCPW played an important part in preventing war with Mexico in 1927. It urged the ratification of the Kellogg-Briand Pact and membership for the United States in the League of Nations and the World Court, lobbied against the "Big Navy" and in favor of disarmament proposals, and aided the investigation of munitions manufacturers in 1934-1935.
As World War II approached, the NCPW supported neutrality legislation, a war referendum, and the Keep America Out of War campaign. During the war years, and directly afterwards, although working with a greatly reduced staff and funds, the NCPW was active in favor of aid to displaced persons, for sanity and justice in the War Crimes Trials, and in opposition to the dismantling of German peacetime industry and the confiscation of German and Japanese private property in the U.S. In all of these campaigns, the NCPW cooperated with other organizations in the peace movement, such as the Committee on Militarism in Education, Foreign Policy Association, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Fellowship of Reconciliation, National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War, National Peace Conference, Friends Committee on National Legislation, Emergency Peace Campaign, League of Nations Association, and the National Council Against Conscription, to list only the national groups. State and local peace councils and peace action committees were of great assistance to all the national organizations during the 1920s-1930s, distributing literature, setting up local conferences, arranging speaking engagements, and cooperating in political campaigns.
As head of the NCPW, Frederick Libby continually traveled all over the United States. As he was a deft organizer and a convincing speaker, he had invitations from groups of all kinds both in the U.S. and in Europe. Libby remarked many times that he felt that the NCPW was a middle-of-the-road organization "for that is what the people are." As time went on, Libby became the NCPW in the minds of many Americans. During the period of the NCPW's active life, he raised over two million dollars and had the reputation of being the best fundraiser in the peace movement. The story of the NCPW's strongest period is told in the book To End War, which Libby wrote during his last years. The book was published by Fellowship Publications in 1969, six months before Libby died at age ninety-five. He was survived by his widow, Faith Ward Libby, who remained an active supporter of the NCPW and the peace movement. The NCPW kept its corporate existence until 1971, though it had ceased its programmatic activities when Frederick Libby retired in 1954.
The records of the National Council for Prevention of War (NCPW) include meeting minutes of the Executive Board (1921-1973), meeting minutes of the Annual Meetings, financial records, and correspondence, all for the years 1921-1975. Most correspondence concerning the speaking engagements of Frederick J. Libby (FJL) will be found in General Correspondence (letters by FJL and Gladys Gould Mackenzie). Also available are departmental and branch office records, and NCPW published material, including complete files of the News Bulletin (1921-1934) and Peace Action (1934-1968), as well its the group's other periodicals. Series F contains a variety of material that documents the NCPW's specific endeavors. Also included are manuscripts and drafts of FJL's book, To End War (1969), his writings, speeches, and attacks upon both him and the NCPW. Dissertations and manuscripts about the NCPW are also available, as are photographs, posters, scrapbooks, and memorabilia.
Series letters, and in some cases titles, were added to this checklist in Sept. 2005 to make it conformable to other such finding aids.
Microfilming of these papers was completed through box 373, of Series F, with 315 reels of film. The two digit number (41) preceding the reel number (such as 41:100), as seen throughout the checklist, has been designated by the Peace Collection to differentiate this set of microfilm from sets for other archival collections. Boxes that have corresponding microfilm are being stored off-site as of 2005. The microfilm may be borrowed three reels at a time through inter-library loan.
Correspondents include Alden G. Alley, Emily Greene Balch, Roger N. Baldwin, Albion P. Beverage, Florence Brewer Boeckel, Clement Biddle, Carrie Chapman Catt, James F. Finucane, Raymond Fosdick, Sidney L. Gulick, Paul Harris Jr., Frederick J. Libby, Gladys K.G. Mackenzie, A.J. Muste, Jesse M. MacKnight, Lucia Ames Mead, Laura Puffer Morgan, Ray Newton, Carrie Wyckoff Ormsbee, Jeannette Rankin, John Nevin Sayre, Rosika Schwimmer, Norman Thomas, Oswald Garrison Villard, E. Raymond Wilson, and Mary Ida Winder.
Guide to the Swarthmore College Peace Collection, 2nd ed., p. 45.
Parts of this collection are available on microfilm (reels 000), including boxes 1-373 and periodicals (reels 041). Microfilming was funded by the National Council for Prevention of War, private donors, and the National Endowment for the Humanities (grant no. RC 27706-77-739). Microfilm is available on-site by appointment and through interlibrary loan from the Swarthmore College Peace Collection.
Items removed: Photographs The diaries of Frederick J. Libby (1921-1970) and a small collection of his personal correspondence are in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress (Washington, DC) Posters were removed to the Poster Collection Glass lantern slides were removed to the Audiovisual Collection 3 LPs were removed to the Audiovisual Collection Oversized items were removed to the Oversized Items Collection Printers' blocks of photos of Frederick Libby & of Jeannette Rankin, as well as of R.O. Berg cartoons, were removed to the Memorabilia Collection [sent off-site, Jan. 2006] Two studies about the NCPW may be found in the Book Collection: Internationalism in American Thought, 1919-1929 by Lyman Besse Burbank (New York University, 1950, 257 pages) and The Influence of the NCPW on United States Foreign Policy, 1935-1939 by Allan A. Kuusisto (Harvard University, 1950, 308 pages)
People
Organization
- National Council for Prevention of War (U.S.)
- Committee on Militarism in Education (U.S.)
- Emergency Peace Campaign (U.S.)
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.)
- Friends Committee on National Legislation (U.S.)
- National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War (U.S.)
- National Council Against Conscription (U.S.)
- National Peace Conference (U.S.)
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. U.S. Section
Subject
- Publisher
- Swarthmore College Peace Collection
- Access Restrictions
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The collection is open for research use.
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All or part of this collection is stored off-site. Contact Swarthmore College Peace Collection staff at peacecollection@swarthmore.edu at least two weeks in advance of visit to request boxes.
Collection Inventory
includes other 1940s NCPW history material
after December 6, 1941
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after Nov. 24, 1954
1929 - 1950
student thesis, 169 pages
George Washington University student paper, 40 pages
prepared at the Brookings Institute, 324 pages
Swarthmore College student paper, 13 pages
190 pages
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no date, photos removed to Photograph Collection
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luncheon scrapbook not filmed
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(71 pages), includes misc. related material
includes misc. related material, comments and reviews
no date
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mostly form letters
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1 Folder per year
1 folder per year
includes NCPW's 25th Anniversary Party
1 folder per year
1 folder per year
1 folder per year
1 folder per year
1 folder per year
1 folder per year
half-box
photos removed to Photograph Collection
2 folders
nothing from 1925
includes correspondence
includes follow-up activities by the NCPW
2 copies of book; not filmed
2 copies of book; not filmed
2 copies
2 folders
Turn Toward Peace (not filmed ; 1st edition was published in 1930), Leaders Manual (not filmed)
3 folders
not filmed
2 folders, includes World Messages From the Children of Wales
2 folders
not filmed
includes World Messages From the Children of Wales
includes correspondence
2 folders
not filmed
includes correspondence with Friends' colleges re: policy concerning flying the American flag on their premises
3 folders
not filmed
3 folders
farmers and peace: see Farm Dept.; labor and peace: see Labor Dept.
2 folders
newsclippings not filmed
2 folders
includes North Wales Women's Peace Council
2 folders
2 folders
3 folders
not filmed
includes Seabury Press and Intercollegiate Peace Association
photos of exhibits removed to Photograph Collection; no large maps in folder
includes correspondence
newsclippings not filmed
postcards removed to Subject File: Art in War and Peace; posters removed to Poster Collection
includes correspondence
newsclippings at end of folder not filmed
includes 2 letters
5 folders
2 folders
4 folders
includes peace flag drawings by 6th grade students; 2 small flags re: the golden rule removed to Memorabilia Collection; photos removed to Photograph Collection; document "World Peace Flags...World Peace Greetings" (1935) removed to Oversized Items Collection; correspondence
newsclippings not filmed
includes correspondence; photographs removed to Photograph Collection
2 folders
2 folders
includes several letters
posters removed to Poster Collection
NCPW posters, cards, photos and stickers removed to appropriate collections
2 folders
newsclippings at end of folder not filmed
newsclippings at end of folder not filmed
photos removed to Photograph Collection
photos removed to Photograph Collection
media coverage?
includes Friends Speakers Bureau's correspondence with Gladys Gould Mackenzie
includes several letters after his disappearance, 1938
photos removed to Photograph Collection
photos removed to Photograph Collection
missing U-Z correspondence
reports #1-19 (rough drafts), mostly re: Disarmament Conference
reports #20-? (rough drafts), mostly re: Disarmament Conference
2nd series reports #7-31 (rough drafts), mostly re: Disarmament Conference
mostly re: Disarmament Conference
re: Naval Conference
reports #1-15 of Winter 1936-1937
reports #16-36 of Winter 1936-1937
letters #1-12 of Winter 1937-1938
removed to Periodical Collection
both removed to Periodical Collection
photos removed to Photograph Collection
includes NCPW reprint of speech in Dec. 8, 1942 Congressional Quarterly, as well as correspondence re: controversy over postal franking of mailing
includes letters from poll of many in Congress re: whether they did or still would vote pro or con on war
probably used by FJL when writing To End War
posters removed to Poster Collection; World Hero essay contest, 1925-1926: calendars and portfolio; includes correspondence of Laura Puffer Morgan with foreign ambassadors and newspaper correspondents
removed to Oversized Items Collection: Documents
mimeographs only
includes misc. releases and statements, etc.
includes Margaret Gilfallen, 1935
incomplete set
book To Stop War not filmed
newsletter removed to Periodical Collection; on reel 41:315
includes letters from others to FJL
photographs removed
photos removed to Photograph Collection
newspaper clippings re: threat of war not filmed
newspaper clippings not filmed
not included on film
not included on film
includes correspondence of other staff members
samples only kept of D and H
samples of L only kept, 2 folders
removed to Periodical Collection; incomplete set
includes one speech; see also general correspondence in boxes 170 and 178 for further material
Mrs. Boeckel's staff members
Mrs. Boeckel's staff members
Mrs. Boeckel's staff members
typical
Mrs. Boeckel's staff members
Mrs. Boeckel's staff members
mostly FJL
2 folders, arranged by date; includes Jane Addams [originals removed]; Horace Alexander; Brent Dow Allinson; Judge Florence Allen (Supreme Court of Ohio); William C. Allen; American Farm Bureau Federation; American Federation of Labor (Samuel Gompers, etc.); American Red Cross; American Union Against Militarism; Ernest Angell; Arbitrate First Bureau (London, England); Louise (Mrs. W.A.) Atkinson (Michigan Council for Prevention of War)
3 folders, arranged by Library Bureau System; includes Jane Addams [originals removed]; Dr. Peter Ainslie; Devere Allen; Judge Florence Allen (Supreme Court of Ohio); American Association of University Women; American Farm Bureau Federation; American Legion (Thomas Amory Lee, etc.); Meredith Auten [niece of FJL]; The "Arbitrate First!" Bureau (London, England)
or on mf reel 41:122?
includes Sophonisba Breckenridge; Richard L. Burdsall
folder contains letters re: Air Disarmament Conference, 1938
includes Church of the Brethren
order forms and replies not filmed
first called Women's Council for Prevention of War
includes Robert C. Dexter (American Unitarian Association); Walter Dexter (Whittier College); Paul H. Douglas (University of Chicago); Duluth Council for Prevention of War
includes Spencer DeGolier (mayor, Bradford, PA); Rachel Davis DuBois
includes Rachel Davis DuBois; Debs Memorial Radio Fund
includes Madeleine Doty; Paul H. Douglas; Rachel Davis DuBois; Anna N. Davis; Mme. Düchene; Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR); Charles Denby Jr. (Eastern College Committee for the Limitation of Armaments)
includes Edward Evans; Mme. Jeanne d'Estemauville; Harold Evans
includes Elizabeth Eastman; Eleanor Eaton; Edward W. Evans; Emergency Foreign Policy Conference; Harold Evans
includes Dr. Rosslyn Earp; John Thomas Emlen; Sherwood Eddy
includes Edward W. Evans; Elizabeth Eastman; Emergency Foreign Policy Conference; Horace A. Eaton; Harold Evans; Helen Evans (School World-Friendship League)
includes Farmers' National Council; Rose Dabney Forbes; Raymond B. Fosdick
includes Raymond B. Fosdick; Noel H. Field: NCPW staff members' correspondence; Alice W. Foster (Hindman Settlement School, KY); Mrs. A.P. Fowler; Hon. Burton French; Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America (Walter Van Kirk, etc.); Edward A. Filene; Edward Frantz (The Gospel Messenger, Brethren Publishing House); Dr. O. Edward Janney (Central Committee of Friends General Conference); Mr. and Mrs. Irving Fisher (Yale University); Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick
includes Alice W. Foster; Rabbi Mitchell Salem Fisher; Luella Flitcraft; Fellowship of Youth for Peace (New York, NY); Senator Gerald P. Nye; J. Rosslyn Earp; Horace A. Eaton; Harry Emerson Fosdick; Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America (Walter Van Kirk, etc.)
includes F; 2 folders
3 folders
Bulletin no. 1-3 removed to Periodical Collection
4 folders
includes Institute of Politics (Williamstown, MA); Will Irwin]
includes International Association of Machinists; Rabbi Edward Israel (Chair, Central Conference of American Rabbis); Indiana Federation of Clubs(Mary Hold); Illinois League of Women Voters; Iowa League of Women Voters; Jane Addams [originals removed]; WILPF, Chicago Branch; Will Irwin
includes The Swarthmore Chautauqua Association
includes The Swarthmore Chautauqua Association
includes Arthur C. Jackson; Rufus M. Jones (AFSC); David Starr Jordon (Stanford University)
includes Emily Cooper Johnson; Elisabeth Florence Tye Jennison (League of Nations Non - Partisan Association of Illinois); Ira Jenkins (Optional Military Drill League, Ohio State University); H.A. Jump; Laura Jamieson (WILPF, Vancouver, B.C.); Lester A. Judy; C.W. Johnson; Tano Jodai (Japan Women's University); Charles F. Jenkins; 2 folders
includes Prof. W.H. Jump; Stella Frances Jenkins; H.A. Jung; Lester A. Judy
includes Gilbert Bowles (Japan Friends Mission)
includes International Service Bureau; newsclippings at end of folder not filmed
includes Mabel Hyde Kittredge (WILPF); Ada B. Krahl
includes Delcevare King
newsclippings not filmed
includes George Mason La Monte; Senator Robert M. LaFollette; Julia C. Lathrop; Isabel La Monte; League for Industrial Democracy (Norman Thomas, etc.); League of Nations: Library, etc.; Louis P. Lochner
includes Senator Henri La Fontaine; Senator Robert M. LaFollette; Platt R. Lawson (Denver Council for World Peace); Corliss Lamont (Harvard Law School, Harvard University); Henry W. Leeds
includes Branches
mostly Branches
includes Florence (Mrs. Thomas) Lamont; Alice Libby; Albert Linton; Walter Longstreth; League of Women Voters (Branches); Demarest Lloyd; includes some names beginning with M
includes Ruth Morgan and others (New York Council for Limitation of Armaments); Lucia Ames Mead
includes National Catholic Welfare Conference; National Committee on American Japanese Relations (Sidney Gulick); National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War; National Council of Women
includes National Council of Women (Anna Garlin Spencer, etc.); Florence (Mrs. George) Nasmyth; National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods (National Committee on Peace, etc.); Northern Friends' Peace Board; National Education Association; Navy Department (U.S.), Office of Naval Intelligence
includes New England Yearly Meeting; New Hampshire Peace Society (Mary Chase); National Kindergarten Association (Bessie Locke); New Jersey State Federation of Women (Carolyn LaMonte, Adelaide B. Conyngton); National League of Girls' Clubs
includes Vincent D. Nicholson; Philip C. Nash (Antioch College); National Student Federation of the United States of America; National Student Forum; Nebraska Society for World Peace; Ray Newton; National Women's Christian Temperance Union (and Branches); Mr. and Mrs. Henry E. Niles; Mary Caroline H. Niles
auxiliary of the Council of Jewish Women
includes state Branches
2 folders
some may be on mf reel 41:143
some may be on mf reel 41:142
includes Violet Oakley; Mildred Scott Olmsted and Allen S. Olmsted 2nd; General John F. O'Ryan
includes Allen S. Olmsted 2nd; Carrie Wyckoff - Ormsbee; Dr. G. Bromley Oxnam; Ohio League of Women Voters; Violet Oakley; Ohio WCTU; Ohio Council of Churches; Open Forum Speakers Bureau; Bishop G. Ashton Oldham; General John F. O'Ryan
re: speech given in 1923 concerning responsibility for world war
includes Philadelphia Young Democracy (Allen S. Olmsted 2nd); Clarence E. Pickett (Earlham College); Cornelia Bryce Pinchot (Mrs. Gifford Pinchot); Frederick J. Pohl; Francis E. Pollard (National Peace Council, London, England); Alice Thacher (Mrs. Louis F.) Post; Thomas C. Potts; some may be on mf reel 41:144
includes Alice Park; Kirby Page; George Foster Peabody; Drew Pearson; some may be on mf reel 41:143
includes Peace Association of Friends in America; Alice Park (WILPF, Palo Alto Branch); Alice Thacher (Mrs. Louis F.) Post; Frederick J. Pohl; Douglas Phillips (Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington, DC)
includes Katherine Pettit (Pine Mountain Settlement School Inc., Harlan County, KY); J.A.O. Preus (Governor of Minnesota, endorsing NCPW campaign for world cooperation); Alice Thacher (Mrs. Louis F.) Post; Pennsylvania Peace Society (Arabella Carter); Clarence Pickett (Earlham College)
includes Peace Association of Friends in America; Frederick J. Pohl; Levi T. Pennington (President, Pacific College)
includes Philadelphia Young Friends' Committee, and Committee on Peace and Justice, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends
3 items
includes Young Friends Movement
includes names beginning with R
includes Jeannette Rankin (Illinois Committee of National Consumers' League); Lord Riddle (London, England)
includes Theodore Roosevelt [original letter removed]; Julius Rosenwald (Sears, Roebuck and Co.); Charles Edward Russell
includes Anna Steese Richardson (Good Citizenship Bureau, Woman's Home Companion); George A. Rhoads; Judge Hoge Ricks (Richmond, VA); Anna Rochester (The World Tomorrow); A.W. Ross (North Manchester, IN)
includes Abby and Chester Roberts (Swarthmore, PA)
includes Eleanor Roosevelt [nothing with her signature]; Dr. Elisabeth Rotten (Internationaler Arbeitskreis für Ereuerung der Erzeihung)
includes Dr. Raymond B. Fosdick
includes Helene Scheu - Riesz (Vienna, Austria); Rosika Schwimmer
Albert Shepard (New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends); H. Josephine Shute (WCTU of California)
includes Society to Eliminate Economic Causes of War; Southern Cooperative League for Education and Social Service; Rosika Schwimmer [items re: her citizenship case]
includes F. Sigmund - Schultze; Annalee Stewart; Dr. Helene St�cker; H.M. Swanwick (Editor, Foreign Affairs, London, England)
includes Susan K. Selfridge (The Church League of the Isolated); Sesquicentennial International Exposition, Philadelphia (PA), 1926 (includes Friends' Sesqui - Centennial Commission, in charge of the exhibits); Daniel Smiley (Lake Mohonk Mountain House)
includes Sesquicentennial International Exposition, Philadelphia (PA), 1926 (also Friends' Sesqui - Centennial Commission, in charge of the exhibits)
includes Helene Scheu-Riesz
includes Sesquicentennial Committee in Charge of The Exhibit on Friendship Between the Nations
includes Esther Morton Smith
includes Rev. Thomas Sykes (Central Friends Church, High Point, NC); Governor William Sweet (Denver, CO); William B. Spofford (The Church League for Industrial Democracy)
includes Reinhold Niebuhr
includes mis-filed items: Governor William Sweet (Denver, CO), 1923 - 1924; Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, Inc., 1927 - 1928
includes D. Elton Trueblood; Florence Taussig (WILPF)
includes Helen Talboy (Club International, Geneva, Switzerland)
written mostly while in the west
includes United Christian Missionary Society; Union of Democratic Control; Scottish Foundation; Harriet Taylor Upton (Republican National Committee)
includes Baron von Plessen (German Embassy); Roy Veatch
includes Baron von Plessen (German Embassy); Roy Veatch (The World Tomorow); includes names starting with U, including United Society of Christian Endeavor; Oswald Garrison Villard
includes War Department, U.S.; Winifred Chappell (The Methodist Federation for Social Service); Hon. John W. Weeks (U.S. Secretary of War); Beatrice Weller; Lydia G. Wentworth; Samuel P. Wetherill Jr.
includes Woman's Foundation for World Concord; L. Hollingsworth Wood; Richard R. Wood (Peace Committee of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends); World Brotherhood Federation
includes J. Paul Williams; Mabel C. Willard (Committee for International Reduction of Armament)
Florence (Mrs. Arthur C.) Watkins (National Congress of Parents and Teachers); Otto Wagner (Dresden, Germany); E. Raymond Wilson; War Department, U.S.
includes Grace Tower Warren (New York Yearly Meeting, Religious Society of Friends); Webster Groves Peace Council; Frances M. White
includes White House; Alida E.S. (Mrs. Henry A.) Whitmarsh; Lydia G. Wentworth
includes Witmarsum Theological Seminary (re: All - Mennonite Convention); Mary E. Woolley (Mount Holyoke College); Myer Wise (No More War Society of Summit County, Akron, OH)
includes Arthur Charles Watkins; Florence (Mrs. Arthur C.) Watkins
includes Women's League of the United Synagogue of America
includes Amy Woods; War Resisters International; Myer Wise; Lydia G. Wentworth; Julia Grace Wales: mss. "Our Threatened Inheritance"
1 item
NCPW staff member?
includes Nov. 5, 1928 notification of her death and article re: the Susan Parrish Wharton Memorial in the April 23, 1930 Friends Intelligencer
includes organizations, 1921 - 1923 (Woman's Peace Society; Women's Peace Union; Western Hemisphere; Women's Peace Foundation); Mrs. Samuel B. Woodward, 1924 - 1928; L. Hollingsworth Wood
includes Church Peace Union
3 items; no correspondence
includes Stanley R. Yarnell (Friends' Peace Committee)
includes Church of the Brethren
Includes material on the Alabama Peace Society.
first name starts with N - Z; first name starts with A - G