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Friends Committee on National Legislation Records
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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.
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The Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) had its roots in the Friends War Problems Committee (FWPC), which worked in 1940 with government officials who were responsible for drafting the Selective Training and Service Act. The fact that provisions for religious conscientious objectors in this legislation were broader than those of the earlier Conscription Act was due in great part to the perseverence of the FWPC. With the increasing emergence of post-war problems relating to the securing of a just and durable peace, the concern arose among Friends that a broad-based organization for dealing with them was needed. This led to a meeting convened in Richmond, Indiana, on June 11, 1943, at which the FCNL was established. A General Committee was set up, with three members selected from the various Yearly Meetings and additional members representing Friends' organizations around the country. It appointed its own Executive Committee. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the FCNL's first Executive Secretary was E. Raymond Wilson. In 1962 he became Secretary Emeritus, and Edward Snyder, who had been serving as Legislative Secretary, took his place.
The FCNL is still active (in 2009). working on such issues as preventing war, Iraq, banning cluster bombs, nuclear disarmament, immigration, Native American rights, and protecting the environment. Its web site may be accessed at http://www.fcnl.org/index.htm.
Chiefly correspondence and reference files including materials about and correspondence with other organizations including American Friends Service Committee, A Quaker Action Group, Friends Coordinating Committee on Peace, and other organizations of the Society of Friends; information on Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors, Committee for Nonviolent Action, Consultative Peace Council, Federal Council of Churches (later National Council of Churches), Fellowship of Reconciliation, National Council for Prevention of War, National Peace Conference, National Service Board for Religious Objectors, SANE, and Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; material of and relating to FCNL staff members including E. Raymond Wilson, Edward F. Snyder, George I. Bliss, Wilmer A. Cooper, Jeanette Hadley, Charles H. Harker, and Frances E. Neely; records and correspondence of several affiliated committees including Friends Committee on Legislation of Northern California (organized in 1952), Friends Committee on Legislation, Southern California Section, and Illinois-Wisconsin Friends Committee on Legislation.
Includes reference files relating to disarmament, conscription, universal military training, conscientious objection, pacifism, United Nations, Vietnam war, civil liberties, civil rights, food supply, and Indian rights. Correspondents include Stephen L. Angell, Emile Benoit, Charles J. Darlington, Thomas A. Foulke, Paul Comly French, Hugh B. Hester, Dorothy H. Hutchinson, J. Stuart Innerst, Homer A. Jack, Samuel R. Levering, Mary Cushing Niles, Philip Noel-Baker, Victor Paschkis, Lawrence Scott, Annalee Stewart, John M. Swomley, and George Willoughby.
Some series have more detailed box lists available as a PDF.
The early material from FCNL, arranged under the supervision of FCNL staff person, Jeanette Hadley, was sent to the SCPC in 1951. Subsequent accessions were added to the collection without rearrangement by SCPC staff. A very detailed checklist, including much historical background, was created by E. Raymond Wilson and is available at the SCPC for viewing. The online checklist is an attempt to interpret Wilson's somewhat confusing listing of series/boxes/folders; there may be some mistakes accordingly. It should be noted that later accessions do not follow the same Series outline.
Records of the Race Street Draft Committee (1939-1940) and the Friends War Problems Committee (1940-1943), and material from the Civilian Public Service Fund Committee of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (1941-1946) were removed to other collections.
Bound volumes of meeting minutes, newsletters, mailings and other material from the national office of FCNL (1966-current), and from the California FCL, are stored in the Periodical Collection. They will be incorporated into the FCNL Records collection when shelf space is available. Accessions of records received after 19885 are listed at the end of this finding aid, in order of receipt. These materials are unprocessed.
This entry replaces MS 60-2198.
Deposited by the Friends Committee on National Legislation, 1951 and after.
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is the official repository for these records.
Gift of FCNL staff, 1951-current.
Mostly processed by E. Raymond Wilson and other FCNL staffpersons; online checklist created by Anne Yoder (Archivist), May 2009.
- Photographs removed to the Photograph Collection
- Audiocassette tapes made by E. Raymond Wilson removed to the Audiovisual Collection
- Financial Ledgers (1943-1944, 1944-1945, 1945-1946, 1946-1948, 1978) removed to the Scrapbook Collection
- 4 Documents - The Ascendency of the Military in American Life" by National Council Against Conscription and ERW removed from Series D, Box 89
- Seven pieces of material on Investigation of the National Defense Program under S. Res. 71 removed from Series D, Box 89
- Tristram Coffin - Washington Watch, published by Business Executives Move (BEM), Numbers 1-36, February 6-October 15, 1968; Numbers 37-72, October 22, 1968-March 5, 1970; Numbers 73-108, March 19, 1970-August 19, 1971 transferred to the Swarthmore College Peace Collection files
People
- Snyder, Edward F.
- Bliss, George I.
- Cooper, Wilmer A. (Wilmer Albert)
- Hadley, Jeanette
- Harker, Charles H.
- Neely, Frances E.
Organization
- Friends Committee on National Legislation (U.S.)
- Friends Committee on Legislation of Northern California
- Friends Committee on Legislation. Southern California Section
- Illinois-Wisconsin Friends Committee on Legislation
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Civilian Public Service Fund Committee
- American Friends Service Committee
Subject
- Society of Friends -- Societies, etc
- Quakers -- Political activity
- Conscientious Objectors -- United States
- Conscientious objection -- United States
- Peace -- Societies, etc
- Pacifism -- United States
- Peace Movements -- United States
- National service -- United States
- Nonviolence -- United States
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects
- War -- Religious aspects
- Women -- Societies and clubs
- Lobbying -- United States
- Lobbying -- California
- Lobbying -- Illinois
- Lobbying -- Wisconsin
- Draft -- United States
- Society of Friends -- Political activity
- Disarmament
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Religious aspects
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Moral and ethical aspects
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Religious aspects
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors
- Food supply
- Civil rights -- United States
- Indians of North America -- Civil rights
- African Americans -- Civil rights
Place
- 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.
- Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Collection Inventory
The correspondence in this series is arranged first chronologically and then alphabetically within each year with other administrative documents throughout.
Includes reports
Correspondents/subjects include: American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Reed Cary, Harold and Waneta Chance, Civilian Public Service (CPS), Edward W. Evans, Federal Council of Churches, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Thomas A. Foulke, Paul Comly French
Correspondents/subjects include: George Hallett, Rufus Jones, Orie Miller, John Nason, Ray Newton, J. Barnard Walton, Richard Wood, E. Raymond Wilson
Correspondents/subjects include: American Friends Service Committee, Gerald Bailey, Emily Green Balch, Clark Eichelberger, Richard Evans, Paul Furnas, Germask CPS Camp, Federal Council of Churches, Fellowship of Reconciliation
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Part of checklist missing for this box prior to the following listings.
Correspondents/subjects include: reappraisal of legislative policies; visit to Senator Willis.
Correspondents/subjects include: Peace Section meeting minutes (1942), C.O. Frozen Fund, CPS men in guinea pig experiments, CPS men in AFSC foreign service work, conscription bill, interview with Phileo Nash, UMT, prosecution of strikers at Glendora CPS Camp, various congressional bills, James Read and Gilbert White visiting Germany, immigration cases of Email Auspitz and the Leng family, immigration and naturalization statistics, post-war recovery, Sgt. Lewis Price (who stuck to his C.O. position while in the army for four years)
Correspondents/subjects include: Charles Boss, James Bristol, Earlham College, Harold Evans, Thomas Foulke, Harrop Freeman, Paul Comly French, Honolulu Friends Service Committee, death of Aaron Napier (former member of FCNL Committee)
Correspondents/subjects include: A.J. Muste, amnesty for C.O.s, world government
Correspondents/subjects include: Walter Van Kirk
Correspondents/subjects include: food packages to Germany, Claims Commission for Japanese-Americans, Grover Hartman, Betty Jacob, UNNRA appropriations bill, Voorkis bill, release of C.O.s in Great Britain
Correspondents/subjects include: Hon. Philip La Follette, Senator Robert La Follette, world organization, feeding and reconstruction, Miriam Levering, Mary McDowell
Correspondents/subjects include: conscription voting record, Quakers in Congress, food parcels to Germany, Austria and Japan,, John Nason, National Peace Conference, world disarmament, National Mental Health Program
Correspondents/subjects include: UMT, the draft, Conscription News, recommendation to Nobel Prize Committee regarding Emily Green Balch, Devere Allen and Norman Thomas on peacetime conscription
Correspondents/subjects include: Ted Olena, Mildred Scott Olmsted, Robert Patterson, Presbyterian Church, feeding Germany and Japan, Clarence Pickett
Correspondents/subjects include: Emily Parker Simon, misconduct of American troops, sending workers to Eastern Europe as farmers etc., Norman Thomas, Fred Tolles, Senator Millard Tydings, Senator Kenneth Wherry, UMT, disarmament campaign
Correspondents/subjects include: UNICEF and relief bill, UMT, Norman Thomas, National Planning Association, conscription
Correspondents/subjects include: foreign student seminars, UMT, American Legion
Correspondents/subjects include: Frank Aydelotte testimony, Fulbright Act, justice for Japanese-Americans
Correspondents/subjects include: Devere Allen, Japanese Exclusion Act,, UMT, "Jim Crow" in the army, Church of the Brethren/Brethren Service Committee
Correspondents/subjects include: Henry Cadbury, AFSC's winning of Nobel Peace Prize, UMT, legislation re: refugees, Julien Cornell's analysis of National Security Training Bill, Disciples of Christ, Citizens Committee on Displaced Persons
Correspondents/subjects include: Glendora CPS Camp strike, efforts to change CPS administration
Correspondents/subjects include: attendance at meetings and conferences
Correspondents/subjects include: William C. Dennis, conscription funding, UMT, Dolliver bill, displaced persons legislation, Japanese and German prisoners of war
Correspondents/subjects include: Kermit Eby, minimum wage legislation, President's Commission on Universal Training, J. Passmore Elkinton, amnesty for C.O.s, Dolliver naturalization bill, relief bill, editorials, Harold Evans
Correspondents/subjects include: Federal Council of Churches, Richard Fagley, displaced persons bill, Walter Van Kirk, UMT, field work in State College (PA) area, military aid to Greece and Turkey, interviews of Congressmen, Thomas A. Foulke, Leslie Frazer, Paul Comly French, Dolliver bill, frozen fund
Correspondents/subjects include: John Nevin Sayre, Muriel Lester, Ernest Galaza, A.J. Muste, Norman Thomas, Percy Bartlett, surplus of potatoes, United Nations and human rights
Correspondents/subjects include: William Green, American Federation of Labor, National Peace Conference, world trade, UMT, John Swomley, Frances Witherspoon
Correspondents/subjects include: relief for Poland, UMT, amnesty for C.O.s, German internees on Ellis Island, Japanese American Evacuation Claims bill, Finnish debt
Correspondents/subjects include: mental health, mercy killing, federal aid for education
Correspondents/subjects include: Claude C. Shotts, Friends Temperance Association, Calib Smith, bill for preserving Selective Service records, amnesty, Subcommittee on Conscription, Disarmament and Rights of Conscience
Correspondents/subjects include: Howard Taylor, League of Six Nations, United Christian Youth Movement, UMT, Young Friends Conference, Edward Thomas, displaced persons, Frederick Tolles, freeze on import of wool, relief for Rumania, Willard Uphaus, Senator Arthur Vandenberg, immigration, tax law
Correspondents/subjects include: United Nations, world government, Geneva Convention on outlawing bacteriological warfare
Includes War Department, UMT, rocket bombs, Eldora League of Women Voters, trade agreements, civilian relief fund, use of national guard in labor disputes
Correspondents/subjects include: Ellen Starr Brinton re: $10,000 grant from Rockefeller for cataloging the Swarthmore College Peace Collection library
Correspondents/subjects include: Steve Cary testimony, immigration, Dr. Ayusawa, prisoners of war
Correspondents/subjects include: crisis in Germany, frozen fund, Finnish debt bill, displaced persons
Correspondents/subjects include: UMT experiment at Fort Knox, Quaker Conference on Conscription, collaboration with communists
Correspondents/subjects include: bearing of arms for naturalization, Stratton bill on displaced persons, tax exemption
Correspondents/subjects include: poster re: UMT, Dan West
Correspondents/subjects include: Tarao Takabushi, Northern Baptist Convention, world peace movement, Julien Cornell, Selective Service Act of 1948, C.O.s, Barsky case, UMT, World Health Organization
Correspondents/subjects include: cooperation with communists, Joachim Jaenicke, Dolliver bill, Mundt-Nixon bill, UMT, Condon case in House Un-American Activities Committee
Correspondents/subjects include: UMT, Henry Ford II, Dutton Peterson as FCNL lobbyist, Harrop Freeman, Paul Comly French, Nelson Fuson
Correspondents/subjects include: action against "Jim Crow" in the army, amnesty for C.O.s
Correspondents/subjects include: Francis B. Hall, UMT, Byron Haworth, Dolliver bill, anti-lynching legislation, Guy F. Hershberger, China, Dorothy Hutchinson, tax exemption, Rufus M. Jones (death on June 16, 1948), testimony before Democratic Platform Committee and Progressive Platform Committee, peacetime economy
Correspondents/subjects include: Dolliver bill, Japanese-American legislation, United Nations, UMT, Phileo Nash
Correspondents/subjects include: United World Federalists
Correspondents/subjects include: UMT
Correspondents/subjects include: Willis Satterthwaite, F.F. Sharpless, Christian Science Church refusal to support C.O.s, John Swomley
Correspondents/subjects include: UMT (both work for FCNL on this), first woman (Annalee) to offer prayer in House of Representatives, June 9, 1948
Correspondents/subjects include: language in law re: C.O.s, Howard G. Taylor, Iroquoia Confederacy, Dolliver bill, Norman Thomas, John Swomley, income tax laws, Oswald Garrison Villard ordered to Battle Creek Sanitarium
Correspondents/subjects include: Sac and Fox Indian tribes in Iowa, Frances Rose Ransom (War Resisters League), conscientious objection in United Nations Bill of Rights, interview with Speaker of the House (Joseph Martin) re: war hysteria and UMT, world reconstruction, UMT in Indiana, arms for Palestine, Florence Widutis (editor of Resolved), National Peace Conference, U.S.-Russian relations, Norman J. Whitney
Correspondents/subjects include: YWCA, YMCA, UMT
10 folders
Correspondents/subjects include: Frank Aydelotte
Correspondents/subjects include: Baltimore Yearly Meeting, North Atlantic Defense Pact, Martin Cohnstaedt case, non-registrant Philip J. Howard, Kenneth Boulding, Gilbert Bowles, world disarmament, Charles Boss
Correspondents/subjects include: Ellen Starr Brinton, North Atlantic Defense Pact, refugees, Brethren Service Committee, Peace Institute in Indiana, M.R. Zigler, world disarmament
Correspondents/subjects include: Henry Cadbury, North Atlantic Defense Pact, Oregon Yearly Meeting, Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors, ROTC, priorities of FCNL, Susannah Crowe, Consultative Peace Council
Correspondents/subjects include: displaced persons
Correspondents/subjects include: health insurance
Correspondents/subjects include: fair employment practices, tax refusal, Selective Service, ROTC at Ohio Wesleyan, Foundation for Foreign Affairs, National Labor Conference for Peace, North Atlantic Defense Pact, peacetime draft, conference on religious and peace leaders No index for rest of box, if there is anything more
9 folders
Correspondents/subjects include: surplus food commodities, agriculture, Japanese-American Claims bill, disarmament campaign, foreign policy based on armaments
Correspondents/subjects include: Commodity Credit bill, assistance to non-Communist areas of China, potatoes for surplus disposal
Correspondents/subjects include: foreign policy, immigration difficulties, Charles Boss, Methodist Seminar, surplus potatoes, C.O. frozen fund, early history of FCNL, Pearl Buck, UMT, Church of the Brethren, Ora Huston, draft
Correspondents/subjects include: McCarren bill, United Nations, interview with Assistant Secretary of State (Hickerson) re: genocide convention, lease at FCNL headquarters, John Thomas, draft bill
Correspondents/subjects include: political prisoners in Greece, K.C. Chacko (Consulate General, India) Henry J. Cadbury, C.O. frozen fund, Iowa Yearly Meeting, disarmament resolution by Senator McMahon, agriculture surpluses, Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors, Wirt Warren parole, Brokaw case, Caleb Foote, draft extension hearings, Consultative Peace Council
Correspondents/subjects include: William C. Dennis, UMT, naturalization oath to bear arms, loyalty plank in FCNL statement of policy, Indian rights in Alaska Statehood bill
Correspondents/subjects include: James A. Crain, surplus food disposal
Correspondents/subjects include: Harold Evans, amicus curiae brief in Cohnstaedt case, UMT, Mundt-Nixon bill, Harrop Freeman, Ralph Friedman (summer intern)
Correspondents/subjects include: surplus commodities, displaced persons legislation, withdrawal (by FCNL?) from Mid-Century Conference on Peace, hydrogen bomb, Tydings proposal for universal disarmament, negotiations with Russia, debate between Clarence Pickett and Ead Cooke Jr. re: UMT (Dec. 17, 1950)
Correspondents/subjects include: Thompson Restaurant case, Genocide Convention
Correspondents/subjects include: Washington Friends Property Study Group, George Hardin, United Council of Church Women, Sociedad Fraternal Hutterians, Nguyen Dinh Hoa, Indo-China, Isidor Hoffman, war in Korea, United Nations
Correspondents/subjects include: Frank Ortloff, C.O. frozen fund, disarmament, Vicktor Paschkis, Society for Social Responsibility in Science, civil liberties, H-bomb, U.S.-Soviet relations, German war orphans, Western Yearly Meeting, Mid-Century Conference for Peace, United Nations, world government, Charles Price
Correspondents/subjects include: Germany, relief to China, Robert Root, Morris Rubin, food distribution, effort to get Senators to reverse over-reliance on military (one week before outbreak of Korean War, May 24th dinner for Eleanor Roosevelt, United Nations
Correspondents/subjects include: Richmond Conference, Willis Satterthwaite, Korea, arming Arab States, peace fund, UMT, Campaign to Prevent World War III, draft extension, atomic weapons control, Latvian displaced persons, alcohol advertising, food distribution, Indian crippled children, refugees, Quaker economists, Annalee Stewart, National Peace Conference, current legislation
Correspondents/subjects include: State Department, Genocide Convention, foreign aid, Den Rusk
Correspondents/subjects include: UMT, draft, disarmament, Fellowship of Reconciliation, National Council Against Conscription
Correspondents/subjects include: Quaker peace testimony, Detroit Conference on Peace and War, Larry Gara case, Roger Baldwin ("no Negro instructors on Ohio State faculty"), ROTC, conscientious objectors, worldwide literacy, Frank Laubach
Correspondents/subjects include: Willard Uphaus, Mid-Century Conference for Peace, agricultural seminar, Robert Vogel, naturalization of people who refused to bear arms, Floyd Vorhis (later spent 14 winters as FCNL volunteer)
Correspondents/subjects include: United World Federation, atom bomb chronology, UMT, Korea, Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany, high school seminars, declaration of national emergency, Larry Gara case, conscription legislation, Hoover Commission, Norman Whitney
Most of index missing; not sure if folder names are as they appear in box. Correspondents/subjects include: E. Stanley Jones, food for India, Korea, China, Ober Law, FCNL opposition for most of Richard Nixon's legislative proposals, Chester Graham's broadcast re: removal of General Douglas MacArthur, grain for India, Philip Jacob, conscription, E. Stanley Jones' interview with President Truman re: Korea and communist China
Correspondents/subjects include: allocation of taxes paid by Quakers for non-war purposes
Correspondents/subjects include: agricultural seminar, Robert Michener case
Includes a letter from President Truman.
Not sure if rest of folders are alphabetical or chronological.
Correspondents/subjects include: Ralph Rose renting rooms for NSBRO's Race Relations Committee, armed services increase, Elmore Jackson, grain for India, C. Lloyd Bailey leaving FCNL, interview with Justice William Douglas
Correspondents/subjects include: world peace referendums in Jamaica, statement for the Forum for the Air, FNCL annual budget
Correspondents/subjects include: Ellen Starr Brinton (?), Korea, interview with Dwight Eisenhower, UMT, ROTC Study Committee, Annalee Stewart, E. Stanley Jones, disarmament workshop, Pentagon Orientation Conference for Religious Leaders
Correspondents/subjects include: Point IV Committee member organizations, Adlai Stevenson's interview with John Ferguson (Oct. 20, 1952), Percy Bartlett, migratory labor legislation, Emily Green Balch, Korea
Not sure if there are P-R folders in this box as well as in Box 24
Correspondents/subjects include: Workshop on World Disarmament, disarmament legislation, American Research Incorporated report, AFSC program on disarmament, doctor's draft, oath for naturalization, Walter Lippman, Robert Pickus, FCL of Northern California
Correspondents/subjects include: Joe McCarthy's voting record, Study Conference of the Historic Peace Churches (July 15-18, 1954), Consultative Peace Council, Conference on Responsibility for World Leadership in 1954 (Feb. 28, 1954)
Correspondents/subjects include: FCNL budget
Correspondents/subjects include: agricultural surplus legislation
Correspondents/subjects include: Betty Zisk, John Forbes' statement as a non-registrant C.O., Bill Fuson joining special staff (Dec. 27, 1954), Fellowship of Reconciliation, Japanese and German war prisoners, Indo-China, UMT
Correspondents/subjects include: Dorothy Hutchinson, George Hardin, Capitol Gist poll, Indo-China
Correspondents/subjects include: Muriel Lester's visit (April 28-30), union efforts at the Chatham mills, letters to government officials
Correspondents/subjects include: Minneapolis Friends Meeting, Indo-China, National Civil Liberties Clearing House, National Council for Prevention of War, Capitol Gist poll
Correspondents/subjects include: Frederick Libby's 80th birthday (Dec. 9, 1954), Washington Churchmen's Seminar (Feb. 23-26)
Correspondents/subjects include: Indo-China, German children of American Negro troops, Guatemala, Stockholm Peace Conference (June 19-23), Eric Johnson, regional offices, Communist China
Correspondents/subjects include: British Ad Hoc China Committee, Kathleen Lonsdale, Ray Newton, UMT discussion at United Church Women's Assembly, Conference on Conscription (Feb. 7-8)
Correspondents/subjects include: Horace Alexander, American Association for the United Nations, Clark Eichelberger
Correspondents/subjects include: Hopi Indian visit to Washington, Dean Burton's citizenship case
Correspondents/subjects include: Grenville Clark, statistics re: military forces, Sheldon Clark, ROTC oath, Albert Coyle, refugees in Europe, National Council of Churches, Cameron P. Hall, Walter Van Kirk, Southern Baptist Christian Life Commission, Committee for World Development and World Disarmament, Ruth Chalmers, Harold Stassen (Presidential Advisor on Disarmament)
Correspondents/subjects include: Conference on World Disarmament and Development (March 24-26)
Correspondents/subjects include: Steve Wilson's case re: sedition, Catherine Cory, Friends Committee on Legislation of Southern California, amnesty for C.O.s
Correspondents/subjects include: Virginia Gray's testimony re: UNICEF
Includes food surplus and Rural Life Association.
Correspondents/subjects include: Cleveland World Order Conference (1953), Bricker Amendment, Harrop Freeman, relation of FCNL with the Religious Society of Friends, Fred G. Lehman, Wilmer Cooper
Correspondents/subjects include: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, United Nations
Correspondents/subjects include: FCC licensing for radio station (Pacifica News), loyalty tests for MPFA, FCNL statement
Correspondents/subjects include: William Rahill, sign-on statement re: licensing and the Fifth Amendment, wiretap hearings
Correspondents/subjects include: Wilmer Cooper, Paul Schiya, costs of warfare
Correspondents/subjects include: FCNL affiliating with National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing
Correspondents/subjects include: Norman Thomas, Selective Service, Association of American Colleges, peacetime conscription
Correspondents/subjects include: UWF meetings (Feb. 3, April 19)
Correspondents/subjects include: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Lucy Carner, disarmament, capital punishment
Correspondents/subjects include: Agricultural Seminar (Feb. 14-21), Voice of America phonograph interview
Correspondents/subjects include: Church World Service, Catherine Cory
Correspondents/subjects include: William Heriton's case
Correspondents/subjects include: reuniting Chinese family's case
Correspondents/subjects include: Fellowship of Reconciliation, communists, "Friends in Government"
Correspondents/subjects include: Dorothy Hutchinson's travel letters
Correspondents/subjects include: Clara Sturges Johnson, Maricopa Indian Cooperative Association
Correspondents/subjects include: Mary Knowles' case re: civil liberties
Correspondents/subjects include: Frederick Libby, hydrogen bomb tests
Correspondents/subjects include: view of E. Raymond Wilson re: various issues
Correspondents/subjects include: National Association of Evangelicals, National Civil Liberties Clearing House, NSBRO, present number of I-W's (2,675 as of June 1st), narcotic addicts
Correspondents/subjects include: disarmament, Atlantic Union
Correspondents/subjects include: chemical/biological warfare, Aswan Dam, Point IV Information Service
Correspondents/subjects include: Department of Peace, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom's workshop on disarmament (April 19), Carl Shaw (Vienna), United World Federalists, John W. Swomley, National Council Against Conscription
Correspondents/subjects include: Trevor Thomas, ocean freight reimbursement to voluntary agencies, disarmament
Correspondents/subjects include: Ambassador Lodge, UNREF Appropriation
Correspondents/subjects include: Vitarelli case (fired from his job in the Polan Islands because of pacifist stance)
Correspondents/subjects include: United Nations, Japan delegation to UN, Washington Seminary on International Affairs
Correspondents/subjects include: interview with General Hershey re: C.O. provisions
Correspondents/subjects include: Friends Consultative Conference on the United Nations, British mission to China (1955), Hungarian refugee repatriation from Yugoslavia, legislation to make finger printing discretionary, foreign distributions over last seven years (by AFSC), Chicago office, New England region, H-bomb petition
Correspondents/subjects include: American Christian Palestine Committee, American Veterans Committee, Senator Morse, American Associates for the United Nations
Correspondents/subjects include: John Bailey, Atlantic Charter poster, nuclear testing
Correspondents/subjects include: Albert Bigelow, nuclear bomb testing
Correspondents/subjects include: Henry Cadbury re: Paul Johnson's testimony, Edward F. Snyder, National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy
Correspondents/subjects include: National Council of Churches, eradication of malaria, Baptists, John Thomas, civil defense program, Disciples of Christ, Robert Fangmeier, nuclear test ban, Methodist Church, Margaret Bender, Washington Seminar, Church World Service, Senate Agriculture Committee on Policies and Operations, Senator Hubert Humphrey
Correspondents/subjects include: beginnings of SANE (four pages of notes by Homer Jack, etc.)
Correspondents/subjects include: disarmament
Correspondents/subjects include: Prayer and Conscience Vigil, direct negotiations with Soviet Union, suit against AEC re: radioactive fallout, Wayne Morse's speech on wiretapping
Correspondents/subjects include: Seymour Eichel's draft resistance case, Harold Evans, nuclear test ban
Correspondents/subjects include: FCNL Diary
Correspondents/subjects include: tribute to Emily Harvey
Correspondents/subjects include: peace tax plan
Correspondents/subjects include: Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, Frederick J. Libby
Correspondents/subjects include: Las Vegas Vigil (Aug. 3-9), Prayer and Conscience Vigil (Nov. 1 - Dec. 1)
Correspondents/subjects include: MacMillan Company, capital punishment [out of order
Correspondents/subjects include: challenging Virginia's segregated seating law
Correspondents/subjects include: confiscated Japanese and German property, arms race, Wilmer Cooper, Clay Judson, Howard Kerschner
Correspondents/subjects include: immigration figures, William C. Rogers, AFSC on Attorney General's list of subversive organizations
Correspondents/subjects include: Alice Shoemaker, Pakistani orphans, Chicago area office (FNCL), Swarthmore College Peace Collection re: Friends War Problems Committee material
Correspondents/subjects include: Norman Thomas, atom bomb tests, disarmament, Trevor Thomas, atomic energy, Israeli-Egyptian border, McCarren Walter Act
Correspondents/subjects include: Robert Wixom, Mrs. Francis Eliot's testimony
Correspondents/subjects include: Kathleen Lonsdale
Correspondents/subjects include: Norman Whitney, National Council of Churches' conference (Dec. 1957), interviews by E. Raymond Wilson and Stephen King-Hall of Senators Flanders, Humphrey and Kefauver, Harold Chance, Department of Peace, Food for Peace Act, conscription opposition, situation of Soboba Indians, Quaker UN program; and much else
Correspondents/subjects include: Lebanon, California Federation of Young Democrats, fallout suits, FCNL Arden House Disarmament Conference (March 20-23), American Council of Voluntary Agencies, Seminar Committee of Friends Meeting, Jeanette Hadley
See Wilson list for details
Correspondents/subjects include: restrictions on travel for Russian visitors invited by Young Friends Committee of North America, loyalty investigation, honorary degree for E. Raymond Wilson
Correspondents/subjects include: Ruth Cadwallader
Correspondents/subjects include: Baptist Church, John W. Thomas, Brethren Church, disarmament, travel to China, M.R. Zigler, Methodist Church, Herman Will Jr., Disarmament Conference (March 13-16)
Correspondents/subjects include: Grenville Clark, Disarmament Information Service, Denmark Yearly Meeting, LeRoy Collins (governor of Florida), Commonwealth Magazine, Consultative Peace Council, long-range strategy for FCNL
Correspondents/subjects include: arms race, Religious News Service, disarmament, Federal Bureau of Prison's document re: number of prisoners (65 = 2nd lowest in history)
Correspondents/subjects include: foreign aid, Foreign Policy Association, John Nason
Correspondents/subjects include: Grace Gibas, disarmament
Correspondents/subjects include: farm surpluses, disarmament, Ann Hardt, nonviolence
Correspondents/subjects include: Germantown Disarmament Conference
Correspondents/subjects include: reprint of Dorothy Hutchinson article "Is Disarmament Possible"
Correspondents/subjects include: International Affairs Seminar of Washington
Correspondents/subjects include: Japanese American Citizens League, Japanese claims to Department of Justice
Correspondents/subjects include: disarmament, nuclear weapon tests, travels of Leonard Kenworthy
Correspondents/subjects include: Earnest Lefever, Christian Ethics and National Security in a Nuclear Age, Samuel Levering, Haverford College's giving honorary doctor of law degree to E. Raymond Wilson
Correspondents/subjects include: Helen Mears, Lebanon, letters between Lockwood Myrick and Vice-President Richard Nixon, Southern Baptist Convention
Correspondents/subjects include: National Council for Prevention of War, Frederick J. Libby's book re: NCPW
Correspondents/subjects include: Pacific Yearly Meeting, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
Correspondents/subjects include: Adlai Stevenson
Correspondents/subjects include: Norman Thomas, Tokyo Monthly Meeting of Friends, Middle East
Correspondents/subjects include: James P. Warburg, Tadao Watanabe (mayor of Hiroshima), Washington Committee for a SANE Nuclear Policy, Washington Joint Religious Staff, Churchmen's Washington Seminar (Feb. 4-7)
Correspondents/subjects include: Edward Snyder, disarmament, nuclear weapons, European refugee immigration
Correspondents/subjects include: meeting with Harold Slassen (Dec. 21, 1959), Colin Bell, food stamps plan, testimony before Legislative Committee, Henry Cadbury, World Refugee Year, statement on the right to travel
Correspondents/subjects include: NGO briefing on German nuclear test ban negotiations (June 24, 1959), Humphrey Bill on Food for Peace, world law resolution, Harold Evans, Elmore Jackson, disarmament policy, interview with U.N. Secretary General Hammarskjold (May 20, 1959), U.N. Commission on the Status of Women
Correspondents/subjects include: E. Raymond Wilson invited to be a panelist at General Assembly of the Union of American Hebrew Congregationalists (Nov. 18, 1959), Consultation on Peace Education and Action (Sept. 17-20, 1959), disarmament
Correspondents/subjects include: farm labor legislation
Correspondents/subjects include: availability of food items
Correspondents/subjects include: "Economics of Peace" Institute (May 2, 1959)
Correspondents/subjects include: China, censorship of foreign mail by post office, atomic energy
Correspondents/subjects include: disarmament, Ben Seaver, conscientious objectors' procedure problems, farm labor legislation
Correspondents/subjects include: proposed Agricultural Abundance in a Hungry World conference
Correspondents/subjects include: atomic bomb tests, Laurence Apsey, Ed Snyder, ROTC at Dartmouth College, civil rights, American Jewish Congress, American Association for the United Nations, Annual Conference of National Organizations (March 6-8), racial and religious discrimination in industries working on government contracts, immigration case of Miss Nabiha Elias Audi
Correspondents/subjects include: nuclear disarmament, Howard Beale, story of Belmont House, Professor Yasui, Emile Benoit
Correspondents/subjects include: American Abundance in a Hungry World seminar, disarmament, withdrawal of Richard Casey from University of California because of compulsory ROTC, La Jolla Friends Meeting, Norman Cousins, tribute to Norman Thomas
Correspondents/subjects include: Mennonite, Guy F. Hershberger, disarmament, nuclear weapons tests, Methodist, Carl Soule, Daniel Taylor, Herman Will Jr., Unitarian, Mary Blanshard, Homer Jack, Program of National Workshops for Religious Liberals
Correspondents/subjects include: Francis Neely, Laurence Scott, chemical and biological warfare establishments, George Willoughby, IRS levy on Larry Scott, Omaha Action against nuclear missile policy, Edward Snyder declining to be an official sponsor
Correspondents/subjects include: draft extension, Daniel Taylor, Methodist Church, UMT
Correspondents/subjects include: William C. Dennis, British conscription ending in 1960, James Dombrowski, Southern Conference Educational Fund, mock hearing "featuring Negroes from the deep south telling how local officials kept them from registering to vote," Robert Dunn, Labor Research Association, cost of military weapons, Frances Neeley, Charles Darlington, Friends critical of the FCNL
Correspondents/subjects include: Harold Evans, private property rights
Correspondents/subjects include: nuclear weapons tests
Correspondents/subjects include: Federation of American Scientists, nuclear weapons, compulsory military training, Air Force ROTC at College of Puget Sound, James Finucane, return of confiscated German and Japanese property, Indian Relocation Program
Correspondents/subjects include: Glenn Smiley
Correspondents/subjects include: total disarmament, Burns Chalmers, Annalee Stewart, Harold Sherk, Frederick Fox
Correspondents/subjects include: supplying atomic weapons secrets
Correspondents/subjects include: Florence Gibson, American Field Service, Virginia Gray, UNICEF, Warren Griffiths, Edward Linta, testimony against capital punishment before House Judiciary Committee, euthanasia, government officials, Richard Nixon, Religious Leader Conference (May 11, 1959), Adelphia Friends Meeting, nuclear weapons tests
Correspondents/subjects include: Nixon Hadley, Kunzia Dam, Menominee Indian bills, Clifford Haworth, Illinois Yearly Meeting
Correspondents/subjects include: Virginia Helm, Oregon Yearly Meeting, alcohol on commercial and military aircraft, Senator Hugh B. Hester, Theodore B. Hetzel, Taos Indians, John Holden, WMAL-TV series "Eight Steps to Peace"
Correspondents/subjects include: George Beebe Institute for International Order, United Nations, Wilmer Cooper, Christian Action and Nuclear Weapons, International Council of Churches' attack on Annalee Stewart and Clarence Pickett, etc., nuclear arms race, Walter Isard, Regional Science Association's session on disarmament (Dec. 28, 1959), Six-Nation Indian Confederation, tax exemption for Indians
Correspondents/subjects include: Sam Jacobs
Correspondents/subjects include: Don Kaufman, alternatives to military taxes, fallout shelters, Howard Kurtz
Correspondents/subjects include: Lorenzo Lowe, Church and World Peace Day, Richard Nixon, Samuel Levering See also end of box 48
Correspondents/subjects include: criticism of FCNL, Hubert Humphrey speaking at State College, General Electric's proposal for cutting non-defense spending, disarmament, Allan Hunter, E. Raymond Wilson's trip with Chester Graham, Helen Mears, U.S.-Japanese Mutual Security Treaty, Dwight Michener, disarmament savings for the economy See also end of box 48
Correspondents/subjects include: Edward Snyder's interview with Eugeni A. Zaostrovtsev re: summit conference on disarmament (April 20, 1959), Edward Snyder's interview with Mr. Borvsky (Nov. 6, 1951 1959?)
Correspondents/subjects include: Pat and Dick Naeye's desire to adopt orphan from Hong Kong, drought in Brazil, oil import quotas, New York Yearly Meeting's letter to President Eisenhower, M.P. Philip Noel-Baker, disarmament, North Carolina Yearly Meeting's letter to Nikita Krushchev
Correspondents/subjects include: National Farmers Union, Food for Peace bill, National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, Donald Keys, Marvin Gewirtz, nuclear weapons, sharing atomic weapons information, National Service Board for Religious Objectors (NSBRO), J. Harold Sherk, George Willoughby, military discharges for C.O.s, Carl Soule, Methodist Church Board of World Peace
Correspondents/subjects include: Symposium on the Death Penalty (May 27, 1959)
Correspondents/subjects include: Pacific Yearly Meeting's telegram to President Eisenhower, nuclear weapons testing, Peoria Monthly Meeting, Charles and Eleanor Harker, Robert Pickus, disarmament, censorship of mail by post office
Correspondents/subjects include: world disarmament / ending arms race
Correspondents/subjects include: world court, Senator Paul Douglas, Constance Randall, exchange of newsmen with China, letter to Eleanor Roosevelt on her 75th birthday, Milo Rose's resignation from FCNL General Committee "over the question of Red China"
Correspondents/subjects include: Sarah Swan's testimony re: legislation on return of confiscated German and Japanese property, grant for Earlham College Project in Kenya, Julius Sobon's letter to President Eisenhower, Soviet Union, Anne Stadler, Emlen Stokes, visit of M.P. Philip Noel-Baker, Seminar for Quaker Businessmen (June 12-15, 1959), Oliver Stone
Correspondents/subjects include: E. Raymond Wilson's "Morality in International Affairs" given at Union of American Hebrew Congregations assembly, World Refugee Year, United World Federalists
Correspondents/subjects include: W.V. Vitarelli's security risk case (Supreme Court decided in his favor
Correspondents/subjects include: Harold Walker, surplus food distribution, food stamps, E. Paul Weaver, UMT, Indiana Council of Churches, World University for Peace, Friends Medical Society, George Willoughby (CCCO's annual report), Robert Wixoms ("prolonged correspondence re: racial situation in Arkansas, including attempts of the Attorney General of Arkansas to smash the NAACP; this case is a good example of how high feelings on race run in Arkansas")
Correspondents/subjects include: Samuel Levering, Chuck Harker See also box 47
Correspondents/subjects include: Jean Malin, distribution of food to Americans, Lafayette March, Frances Neely, war debt, meeting on disarmament (Dec. 18, 1959), Mrs. James Marshall, Duane Moore, Agricultural Seminar, Irving Morrissett See also box 47
Jan. 13 - Nov. 22; "extremely good review of FCNL information and activities"
Correspondents/subjects include: AFL-CIO, Henderson Textile Workers Union strike, Youth Corps, AFSC conference called too pro-Communist by Howard Kerschner, surplus food commodities
Correspondents/subjects include: American Farm Bureau, United Nations, world court, American Association for the United Nations, Republican Convention
Correspondents/subjects include: Sydney Bailey, Secretary of State Rusk, Kruzua Dam, Montclair Forum, Kenneth Boulding, scientific study of peace, Lloyd Bailey accused of being a Communist, chronology of test ban treaty (1958-1960)
Correspondents/subjects include: Eves Cadwallader, Agricultural Seminar "American Abundance in a Hungry World" (Dec. 1960), interview of Stanley MCaffery re: disarmament, appeal to Chase Fund for completing Frederick Libby's book, Chicago Monthly Meeting re: memorial for James Matchett, Church Peace Union, China, free elections under Batista regime, Governor (of Florida) Lercy Collin's statement re: "rights of Negroes to be served at lunch counters in stores accepting their patronage," Stuart Innerst, Committee of One Million, bi-partisan anti-Red China stand, Antarctica Treaty, funds for disarmament studies, National Peace Agency, Youth Corps, Quaker Peace Witness delegation to see Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Menshikow (Nov. 14, 1960), C. Edward Behre, nuclear test ban, Campaign for Disarmament, Summer Caravan for Disarmament's tour of 43 cities, Committee for Non-Violent Action, Vigil at Fort Detrick, Polaris Action Walk, shooting down of test pilot (Francis Gary Powers) over Soviet territory, report of experience in Honolulu city/county jail (by William Huntingdon, James Peck, Orion Sherwood, George Willoughby, Albert Bigelow), Crime and Punishment Committee of the New York Yearly Meeting, Cuba, interviews by Robert Lyon, projected visit to Cuba of Robert Stroud
Correspondents/subjects include: Indian concerns, Jerome Davis, military expenditures, Robin Dixon, economics of disarmament, Marion Dockhorn, Rosecoe Drummond, Charles Darlington, Drew Pearson's column on the FCNL, E. Raymond Wilson's 9-day midwest trip with Chest Graham, status of Midwest FCL Office, Jeanette Hadley, Advance Platform Committee of the National Democratic Convention, Disarmament Information Service, agricultural abundance, luncheon for Philip Noel-Baker (June 20, 1960), Campaign for Disarmament
Correspondents/subjects include: releases written by Glenn Everett re: FCNL activities
Correspondents/subjects include: Friends Medical Society, disarmament efforts with Kennedy's and Nixon's staffs, attacks (red-baiting) on the Fellowship of Reconciliation by the Church League of America, Al Hassler, John Swomley, U.S.-Japanese Security Treaty, John Nevin Sayre, University of Maryland's modification of ROTC policy regarding C.O.s, Friends Coordinating Committee on Peace, proposed meeting with Philip Noel-Baker, Stuart Innerst's story re: William Martin losing his job as Senate Page, Friends General Conference, disarmament, nuclear testing, Friends Peace Committee, George Hardin's call for more imaginative meetings and Quaker action, Friends Medical Society, chemical and biological warfare, books for the Central Theological Seminary in Korea, Friends Peace Conference "What Do the Scriptures Say About Peace?" (Feb. 27, 1960)
Correspondents/subjects include: voluntary military training workshop at University of Wisconsin, disarmament, government officials, Charles Darlington, C. Edward Behre, test ban treaty, Chessman case, Philip Noel-Baker, Richard Nixon's part in steel Strike? settlement, Congressional Committees, deductions for public interest organizations for lobbying, full appropriations for humanitarian programs in the Mutual Security Bill, opposition to transfer of nuclear weapons to NATO command, Comptroller of Foreign Propaganda, Youth Corps, malaria eradication, refugees, statement signed by 1000 representatives of Christian and peace groups in Japan re: Japanese-U.S. Security Pact, Kiuzua Dam, government officials in the executive agencies, food surpluses, international labor affairs, Charles Darlington, World Refugee Year, Disarmament Information Service, statement of Christian groups in Japan urging President Eisenhower to postpone his visit to their country, Geneva Test Ban Treaty, compilation of statements on disarmament and nuclear weapons testing by 38 national organizations
Correspondents/subjects include: Western Yearly Meeting, Oscar Hammerstein II, international peace force, Platform for Peace, Lowell Hershey, CBR installation in Indiana, Oregon Yearly Meeting, Quakerism of Richard Nixon, Social Security, Presbytery trial of Rev. Maurice McCracken, population control, nuclear testing, disarmament, Five Years Meeting, Stuart Innerst, U.N. Seminars, Political Action for Peace - Massachusetts PAX, Senator Kennedy, William Hefner, Adam Lohaus, firing of William Martin as assistant in the Republican Senate Cloakroom, immigration, U.N. High Commission on Refugees, General Hugh Hester
Correspondents/subjects include: Ada Wardlow, Rand Corporation, economics of disarmament, Illinois Yearly Meeting, Central Arizona Indian Committee re: tribal lands, appeal of Seneca Indians re: Kiugua Dam, Walter Isard, International Peace Institute's handbook
Correspondents/subjects include: disarmament, Robert Thomson, Clara Sturges Johnson, China, Youth Corps, Peace Corps
Correspondents/subjects include: Soichi Kato, Carroll Kenworthy, interview by 14 churchmen of Kennedy, Nixon and Humphrey, interviews re: Bill Martin's case, disarmament, Chester Bowler, Natalie Kimber, Kenneth Knowlton, Peace Corps, Sacrificial Peace Fund of the Wilton Friends Meeting, Kiuzua Dam, Seneca Treaty, Levinus Painter, Dr. Polycarp Kush, economic conversion from military economy
Correspondents/subjects include: Margarethe Lachmund (East Berlin, Germany), Association on Indian Affairs, Kent Larrabee, Irving Laucks, Summit Conference, Leonard Lazam's proposal for New York FCL office, Frances Neely, George Loft's summary of his experiences in Rhodesia for the AFSC in 1957-1960, Ellsworth Palmer, China, Samuel Levering's difficulties with California Yearly meeting, Colin Bell, approval for E. Raymond Wilson to attend World Assembly of the World Council of Churches in New Delhi, India
Correspondents/subjects include: disarmament, weapons testing
Correspondents/subjects include: Volunteers for International Development, Mrs. James Marshall, William Matchett, James Matchett, Kiuzua Dam, Governor (of New Jersey) Robert Meyner, Lela Mills, Minneapolis Monthly Meeting, U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, Carl Soule, Methodist Church, chemical and biological weapons, Irving Morrissett, Purdue University, Mountain View Friends Meeting, Champaign-Urbana Friends Meeting, William Martin (letter sent by him and others from Washington Young Friends sent to 22,000 high school seniors, which led to his dismissal as Senate Page), Poughkeepsie Monthly Meeting, Senator Margaret Chase Smith, interview with Charles Coolidge, Wolf Mendl's report of activities (1959-1960)
Correspondents/subjects include: NBC story on Quakers, Warren Nelson, Food for Peace bill, Richard Newby, disarmament, Ferner Nulin, Summit Conference, national organizations, NAACP, Hecht Company's discrimination in restaurant in Baltimore, Maryland, National Association of Social Workers, National Consumers League, Mexican farm labor importation, National Farmers Union, National Civil Liberties Clearing House, National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, Homer Jack, nuclear weapons testing, 20th anniversary of NSBRO, New Jersey Friends Committee on the Social Order, M.P. Philip Noel-Baker
Correspondents/subjects include: Oberlin College, germ warfare
Correspondents/subjects include: Drew Pearson, Leo Poch, L. Pointer, Victor Paschkis, Summit Conference, Pennsylvania Committee to Abolish the Death Penalty, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Mary Philips, Platform for Peace, William Hanson, China, Alfred Kolberg, Youth Corps, Charles Price, Quaker Conference on Disarmament and the United Nations, Norma Price, Chester Graham, Civil Rights and Immigration Subcommittee of the Republican Convention, Henry Lohmann, Harold Evans' testimony before Senate Foreign Relations Committee re: the world court, execution of ____ Chessman, John Swomley, Disarmament News, test ban treaty
Correspondents/subjects include: James Read, Drew Pearson's column on Nixon and the FCNL, Ruth Replogle's testimony before House Committee re: foreign aid, Brig. General J. Rothschild, Morris Rubin, Dr. Richard Rogers, Secretary of State Herter
Correspondents/subjects include: Student Peace Union, Japanese Security Treaty, Doris Shamleffer, Committee on World Development and World Disarmament, germ warfare, United Nations bureaucracy, Susan Gower Smith's visit to Soviet Embassy with Ambassador Dobrynin, Somerset Mills Monthly Meeting, cold reception to Levinus Pointer's testimony re: Kinzua Dam, Robert Stroud's proposed trip to Cuba, experiment in dealing with drug addiction, Lobby for Peace, John Swomley Jr., disarmament
Correspondents/subjects include: Lyle Tatus, Southern Rhodesia, Peace Corps, Richard Taylor, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, dinner meeting with Charles Coolidge, foreign aid, civil rights, trade restrictions, Norman Thomas, economics of disarmament, Princeton Monthly Meeting, missile bases in Spain, D. Elton Trueblood re: Drew Pearson story, Friends Peace Committee (London)
Correspondents/subjects include: AFSC's efforts in Washington and Oregon re: peace planks for party platforms, Frank Uphoff, Peace Corps, refugees, Stuart Innerst, Julia Henderson, capital punishment, UNICEF, United World Federalists, Charles Price, National Political Action Committee, disarmament, American Farm Bureau, Connally Amendment
Correspondents/subjects include: McCarran Subversive Activities Control Act, Youth Corps conference, Jerry Voorhis, Frances Neely, Rep. Margaret Stitt Church
Funds for disarmament studies, Harold Walker's statement before the Advance Platform Hearings of the Democratic National Committee on the "Economics of Peace," Ada Wardlaw, Frances Neely, Disarmament Administration (to be responsible to the Secretary of State), nuclear policy, Stuart Innerst, execution of ____ Chessman, J. Paul Weaver, Western Yearly Meeting, capital punishment, Friends Medical Society, Westtown Monthly Meeting's Peace Committee, peace testimony of Friends, United Nations, chemical-bacteriological warfare, total disarmament, U-2 flights, World Government Sunday, Connolly Amendment, Peace Corps, Washington lobby for peace, transfer of nuclear weapons to Germany, Douglas Page ("a peace candidate for Congress in the 6th District of California"), agricultural surpluses, Richard Wood, Washington Staff Conference (including interview with Nixon, Kennedy and Humphrey, April 21, 1960), economics of disarmament, Foreign Policy Clearing House, George Willoughby re: young C.O. in army seeking discharge, Youth Service Corps, alternative to military service, Eston Rockwell citizenship case, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), Herbert Jehle, SANE, CBR warfare, Esther Frankel, Janet Neuman, Katherine Arnett, abolition of House Un-American Activities Committee, withdrawal of Eleanor Roosevelt from WILPF, Summit Conference, treatment of Nazarene C.O.s in Yugoslavia, Adelaide Baker, Andre Trocine [Trocme? luncheon (Jan. 20, 1960), Duncan Wood, nuclear test negotiations WILPF material in separate folders?
Correspondents/subjects include: refusal by Wilmer Young to pay taxes, Betty Zisk (former FCNL staff member)
Correspondents/subjects include: list of staff members with beginning and concluding dates (up to 1956), disarmament negotiations in Geneva (May 4, 1960), Jeannette Hadley in Geneva, list of potential volunteer jobs at FCNL, comments on statement of legislative policy
She wrote to Robert Kennedy urging that the film be banned. Apt to be violence if HUAC goes back to San Francisco.
Were there any NGO witnesses at the Senate Hearings on foreign policy except WIL? E. Raymond Wilson reply.
Suggests disclaimer on Newsletter material not contained in statement of Legislative Policy. Commends March newsletter.
Current problems in civil liberties.
Wants suggestions for speakers for conference on War and Peace by the Association of General Counsel. Composed of chief legal officers of many large corporations. EFS reply.
Recommending that the AFSC undertake to organize and train a Transforming Power Corps for non-violent action and policing.
About his paper on the "Theory and Practice of Deterrence" and the need for nonviolent action, citing the Norwegian experience under the Nazis.
Jesse Mock reports that the Congressman Reuss credits your testimony in tipping the scales for reporting out a bill to study the possibility of the Peace Corps. Sends paper on the subject "Can Non-violence be Effectively Used to Preserve Democracy?"
Asks about resolutions in Congress on "preemptive war" and about foreign policy studies for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Waldo Hinshaw replies.
Writes to Peace News (London) correcting story by William Worthy about US shipment of drugs and medicines to Cuba.
Asks for FCNL cooperation in helping Indians help themselves.
Invites AFSC representatives to attend their meeting in Missoula, Montana on August 13-16, 1961.
Asks for clarification of food for China situation as of December 5. EFS reply.
Expressing appreciation of Orange Grove Minute. He reports interviews with Congressmen on relations with China.
Sends paper on financial aspects of the economics of disarmament.
On possible testimony before one of the Appropriations Committees on the foreign aid hill. Sends copy of letter to the New York Times on nuclear testing and on linking disarmament inspection with evacuation of military bases around the Soviet Union.
Asks help for Paul Sekiya to attend the Christian Peace Assembly in Prague
Impossible for submit an affidavit for Frank Wilkinson in the time available.
Wants to meet Stuart Innerst and other Feb. 2 and 3.
Commending FCNL statement on civil defense but AVC position is different.
Invites EFS to be sponsor of the thirteenth Annual Roosevelt Day Dinner on March 13. No record of whether accepted or not.
Urging support for an Academy for Diplomacy.
About various bills and the need for diversity in training for government service.
March 11-13, 1962 on "The United Nations' Decade of Development."
Sending letter which has gone to 24 organizations with resolutions in effort for interview with President Kennedy. E. Raymond Wilson is unclear if interview ever materialized 4-23-69.
Coordination of proposed Disarmament Conference with the AAVN Conference
March 12-14, 1961 on "The United Nations in Crisis."
Sent to Sandy Gottlieb at SANE
Valuable summary of FCNL efforts to establish the Peace Corps
"It was very heartening to learn of your activities in writing one letter each day for a month to some important person on the subject of peace." Congresswoman Green once read that if there were two people in every local church in the United States who were concerned about a better foreign policy and would put their concern into action, they could change the climate of opinion in this country and bring about such a change in foreign policy.
Regarding just complaints in the UN regarding their treatment of the Soviet bloc, including no president of General Assembly, not always their share of Security Council seats, no part in missions to trust territories, Peking government still excluded. Bailey recommends more precise instructions to the Secretary General, consultative committees should be set up, proposals should be made for general disarmament, etc.
Re his denial of U.S. complicity in the Cuban invasion. "To have to implement and defend such a policy in the United Nations must be bitter fruit indeed…Can you not assume the leadership in finding peaceful ways of dealing with Cuba, and if necessary, resign and take your case to the American people?"
Virginia Quakers active in bettering race relations.
Advertising costs of defense contractors paid for by US government
Public opinion campaign on nuclear testing
24,000 copies of the summary report of the Seventh National Disarmament Conference were printed.
Letter to Saturday Review about war toys.
Appealing to University of Michigan PRess to print George Hallgarten's study on colonialism and imperialism.
"Perhaps you can suggest some concrete thing which can make sense to a man like Barry Goldwater."
US Disarmament Agency obtained only 20% of the funds asked for. Only able to fill two of its five assistant director posts and is confined to hiring scientists only.
Congressman Goodell's proposed bill for indemnifying the Seneca Indians.
Visit to Congressman from the First District.
E. Raymond Wilson asks what Australian Friends can do on food for China.
Deep appreciation for outstanding speech to the General Assembly on disarmament. Resumption of underground nuclear tests unfortunate. "Let us lead in the 'peace race' by tangible and specific initiatives which we can take without further negotiations."
"It has hurt me a great deal to see the misdirected activities of such persons as yourself and the late Senator McCarthy drag the good name of America into the mire and subvert the democratic processes and the principles of justice upon which it is built." Asks the committee to investigate the activities of the CIA and the State Department in the Cuban fiasco.
Re: revision of bibliography on the economics of disarmament
Same to Senator Jordan and Representatives.
Urging support for NC delegation to visit Congress and to write to Washington.
Re: coming to Washington and thanks for contribution.
Re: coming to Washington. Jeanette Hadley comments on Civil Defense hearing. Climate of opinion must change.
Includes correspondence with many of them.
AB encloses letters from Senators Fulbright and Rush.
Representing the Independent Political Forum of Rochester. Petition to Senator Keating.
Congratulations on becoming the new President of the WIL.
Distorts FCNL view of solving the Berlin issue.
Writes to Secretary of State Rusk asking if the US really wants peace.
Exchange of letters on role of nonviolence in a "World Without War."
On contributions to the United Nations from individuals and groups.
On projected conference on the Churches and Peace.
Letter to James Read asking for cooperation from Wilmington College, which trains many teachers.
Criticizing CIA and military intervention in Cuba
"We petition thee and our Government that our Nation, under God, lead a waiting world into the paths of righteousness and of peace." Inserted in the Congressional Record June 23, 1959. Clarkson writes about coming to Washington to see the Cuban Division of the State Department.
Supported by a group from the Eugene, Oregon Peace Center.
"Your letter of May 9 was a model of reporting on interviews in the Department of State and the Peace Corps. In an interview with Robert A. Stevenson of the State Department, he gave his personal view that the US should crush the Castro government by force, with US intervention directly if indirect revolutionary activity did not succeed."
On the United Nations plans for a conference in the Mayflower Hotel on January 18-19, 1962 under the theme "UN in Danger."
Includes EFS. At Asbury Methodist Church in Arnold, Maryland on March 26.
Regarding relations and difficulties with the FCL and the FCNL. Keith Sarver writes, "There are very few of us who want to be associated with Pacific Yearly Meeting in any way, shape, or form."
"President Kennedy said at a press conference on November 8th that the US must resume nuclear testing in the atmosphere should the evaluation of the Soviet tests show that the present American lead is threatened."
Request to receive the Moscow Walkers for Peace at the White House while in Washington on May 13th and 14th. Those who believe in nonviolent action "try to speak simply and directly as human beings to other human beings confronted with the grave problems and perils of our time."
Fourteen to protest the Polaris Submarine and call for total disarmament.
List of participants.
Consultative Peace Council's (CPC) relation to Turn Toward Peace and a coordinated campaign on the Berlin crisis.
General Cardenar spoke to Mexican students at the time of the Cuban invasion and said, "nothing good can be gained by violence and destruction but people interested in the cause of peace have the obligation to act constructively and peacefully." Ed Duckles says based on his sixteen years in Mexico that "if the United States has as its purpose to defeat Communism in the Western Hemisphere then a drastic mistake was made when it was decided to support the counter revolutionary invasion of Cuba."
"No one seemed to me to be doing any creative or imaginative thinking on the total problem."
E. Raymond Wilson, the Friends' Journal editor, writes, "The purpose of the Church is to bring the reality of God's love, wisdom and power into human lives. This is not the time to take refuge from the pressing urgencies of our age in a consciously hallowed verbalism."
"E. Paul Weaver did some of the most creative and imaginative work in Washington that I have seen done by a volunteer, nonprofessional, 'lobbyist.'"
Thanks for your participation in the Mennonite Seminar "Our National Government and the Christian Witness." Mennonite leadership moving toward stronger Christian witness to the larger society.
Thanks for your magnificent document, "Civil Defense: Shelters or Tombs," which has been included in the bibliography in our magazine CONCERN.
To explore the various ways of making a maximum impact upon the government in the shortest possible time for the concept of general and universal disarmament under adequate safeguards.
Similar letter to Herman Reissig and Ray Gibbons.
Also includes a story from Time on the attitude of psychiatrists on persons and punishment.
"The United Nations is undergoing the most serious crisis in its history with the combination of the death of the Secretary General, the financial crisis, and the problems of the Congo."
"We are adopting the things that make our enemies powerful and incidentally the things that made them our enemies. The first result of any war is that the adversaries exchange vices. Our danger is that we shall copy the militarism that corrupted Germany and Japan."
"The experience which you and your wife have had is, in my opinion, just what the Peace Corps ought to be looking for in supervisory and program personnel."
EFS speaks the evening of October 15th.
Excellent example of local initiative.
Third printing of Frances Neely's study on Cuba – 7,000 copies of Action Bulletin printed.
"We have just figured out that Stuart Innerst, Ed Snyder, or I have talked in person with 185 representatives and 57 senators since January 1969."
Major issues propagandized by the Communist Party – peaceful coexistence, outlawing all nuclear weapons, disarmament, admission of Communist China to the UN, reunification of Germany, exchange of delegations between the United States and the Soviet Union, etc.
Humphrey says little chance to see the President.
Nuclear testing, disarmament, Berlin, China.
Off the record interview with James W. Symington (Deputy Director, Food for Peace Program), including Food for China, more correspondence on Food for China.
OCDM says that 600 high schools will participate in the program.
Expresses hope that the United States "will continue firmly in the path that leads to the total renunciation of all nuclear testing and armament, and to general disarmament."
125 Quakers from 60 meetings, including many in the South – "time is running out…it is still open to Friends to convert tensions into ties of humanity."
Friends participation in the World Association of World Federalists, Paris, November 24-25.
Waukesha rejected the building of a two or three hundred thousand dollar building. Editorial in the Waukesha Freeman – letter regarding false radar readings reflected from the moon but interpreted as enemy missiles coming toward the US.
Goldwater fought in the Senate to take out all research authorization in the Arms Control Agency Bill.
"In the last 17 months, since January 1960, staff members have interviewed 185 members of the House of Representatives and 57 Senators" much by Friend in Washington Stuart Innerst.
"Acts such as our Cuban intervention appear to abandon rather than defend the principles of our system in the face of the costs and perils of living in a world of Revolutionary change."
Kennedy's address included seeking to enlist the nations of the world in a "peace race."
Quotes Mr. Ellis, "As a God-fearing nation, we should accept the fact that it is our responsibility to survive…" "To that let me add only that a strong, protected nation, not a weak, unarmed one, is our best assurance of peace."
Urges arms free zone in Central Europe. "More and more American citizens are becoming convinced of the fallacy of civil defense shelters."
Pleading for the use of the United Nations in making the world right.
"I urge that instead you bend every effort to the prevention of war through adequately implementing the new Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, increasing economic aid to underdeveloped countries, engaging wholeheartedly in disarmament negotiations, and working out a solution to the Berlin impasse through negotiation."
Topics include the draft, the "hush-hush" on proceedings of a military nature, disarmament, equalization of domestic and foreign trade, lack of effective use of the United Nations, and excessive burden of our present taxation methods.
"Do not stoop to the low level to which Russia's leaders have sunk in their resumption of nuclear tests…Men of force have no other trade than war."
7 page report.
Quoting Alice Freeman Palmer, "Put your life into people; these touch other people, and those others still; and so you go on living forever." Also the story of Dr. Martha Elliott and the Russians. "Mountains may never come together but men can."
Thanks for the article from the San Francisco Chronicle and opinions on civil defense.
Thanks for the San Francisco Chronicle article. Also, Marc Raskin.
Thanks for the letter prior to the President's address at the United Nations and sending the President's address.
"Grave concern over the present trend of international events…We appeal to you in the strongest possible terms to take steps now to reverse this deadly speed."
Thanks to E. Raymond Wilson for the suggestion by Henry Bernstein on power for the National Peace Agency to make grants to universities, associations, societies, labor unions, etc. for pilot projects designed to eliminate causes of war and encourage peacemaking processes.
Letters regarding food for Communist China.
Regarding Dirksen's concurrent Resolution, S. Con. Res. 22, opposing UN seating and US recognition. Innerst hopes the report is wrong that Secretary Rusk approves this resolution.
Asking for full and active support for US neutrality and article 15 of the Charter of the Organization of American States and to accept the March 4th offer by Argentina for mediation between the US and Cuba.
Urges him to consider eight steps.
Asking what justification there is for TV statement that "nine out of ten Americans would survive a maximum nuclear attack on the United States" if proper precautions were taken?
Telegram strongly urges appropriation of full amount for development grants in mutual security bill.
Support for US membership in the proposed Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
"I heard Ed Snyder's testimony and was impressed not only by what he said but by Ed personally. You are fortunate to have a person like him."
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This series is arranged chronologically.
Missing January - June 1968
This series is arranged in chronological order.
Missing 1964 and 1969 is incomplete
The campaign against UMT ran intensively between 1944 and March 1952 when the UMT bill was defeated by recommittal. Folders for the various years do not follow a completely consistent pattern. Action refers to activities against UMT by the FCNL and/or other organizations.
Material for and against UMT is scattered throughout the years when date of publication was available. The most nearly complete file of National Council Against Conscription pamphlets and flyers is contained in the 1951-52 files.
Where folders contain material for more than one year, the folders are filed in the latter year.
The minutes of the FCNL contain reference to important decisions; including special campaign and financial reports of extra-budgetary funds solicited.
There is very little material in these conscription files for the years after 1955, for 1950, and 1953-54. I do not have an explanation for the small amount of material for some of the years. Apparently there was no major legislation activity and no major FCNL effort.
There is some correspondence on UMT scattered through the FCNL Correspondence files from 1944 on. For the most part, this correspondence is not indexed.
Material bearing on disarmament and FCNL sponsored disarmament activities conferences is in a special disarmament file–again, not complete in itself–which has been retained at FCNL headquarters as background material for the current international disarmament talks. This will be deposited at Swarthmore later.
Boxes 106-108 are missing.
Five bound volumes on Disarmament and Conscription in the FCNL. Library Archives in Washington covering the period 1944- . Some, but not all, of the material is on file at the Wilmington College Library.
Complete sets of Conscription News no. 1-252 running from 1944-1959 published by the National Council Against Conscription and edited and largely written by John Swomley. One set is on file in the Swarthmore Peace Collection, one bound set in the Library of Congress, and one set in the FCNL archives.
The FCNL Washington Newsletter, action bulletins, and FCNL memos from 1944 through 1969 will give a partial running summary of major conscription developments.
Hearings before House and Senate Committees over the years, some of which have been transferred to Swarthmore, some of which are on file at the FCNL, and others of which can be consulted in the Library of Congress.
There is no complete segregation in these FCNL files between activities against Universal Military Training (UMT), Selective Service enactment and extension, and against compulsory reserve system, so the labels on the folders are not completely accurate at this point.
This series contains work files and reference files about universal military training (UMT), conscription, and disarmament. These files are suggestions only and not definitive about the activities of the FCNL in these various areas. These files should be checked against the FCNL newsletters and the rest of the material in the FCNL bound volumes in the FCNL headquarters, against the cumulative gray boxes of reference material in the FCNL library which are weeded out from time to time, and against the correspondence files.
Re: provisions for C.O.'s in National Service or conscription bills
Re: Universal Military Training and worker draft
Includes list of 16 questions for the Commission to explore submitted by E. Raymond Wilson. "An Analysis of the Report" by John Swomley signed by 16 distinguished Americans. Also "The Facts Behind the Report." Both published by the National Council Against Conscription. Summary of Norman Thomas Testimony.
Includes American Legion Citizens Emergency Committee and Veterans of Foreign Wars
From Henry Shipherd, Chester Gray, and others
See also the major file on Conscientious Objectors in Series E.
Includes February List, November List, and opinions on the 18 year old draft, etc.
After 8 years of effort.
This is the largest single collection of NCAC publications in these files, but there are publications during many of the other years. Not all NCAC publications are dated.
Including Report on the Orientation Conference for Religious Leadership held in the Pentagon, January 15-17, 1952 by Algie I. Newlin and "The Ascendency of the Military in American Life," by E. Raymond Wilson, March 13, 1952.
Participants included Lt. General Raymond S. McLain, Major General Lewis B. Hershey, John Swomley, and E. Raymond Wilson. The subject of the forum was "Do We Need UMT NOW?"
Includes attendance at conference for farm and churchleaders, Grange Conference Room (October 4, 1954).
Includes History of FCNL Anti-Conscription Campaign (1955) by Marie Kloez (31 pages) and contributors to Campaign and finance report on special extra-budgetary campaign.
Includes action sheets 1-21.
Mainly from NCPW files. The materials in this box turned up after the FCNL UMT and Conscription files were completed. Most of the material came from the National Council for Prevention of War files, which Frederick J. Libby gave years ago to Raymond Wilson. There was not time available to check against the other boxes so there will be some duplication, nor was there time to re-sort the contents by years, hence the folders overlap in years. It seemed logical to put this with the conscription files. UMT, Peacetime Conscription, and SElective Service are used somewhat interchangeably in these files so the debates and actions regarding extension of selective service are not all clearly segregated.
Includes material on the nurses draft.
Continued from FCNL Box 52 (old numbering), Disarmament before).
Largely from NCPW files.
Working material.
Historical material.
F.J. Libby Files
Includes materials on the debate surrounding international and civilian control of atomic energy; chemical and biological warfare; and the Air War.
Many materials are National Council for Prevention of War files.
F.J. Libby Files.
Includes Colt et al.
F.J. Libby Files.
F.J. Libby Files
F.J. Libby Files
F.J. Libby Files
Periodical
F.J. Libby Files