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Pennsylvania Committee for Total Disarmament Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-030
Overview
The Pennsylvania Committee for Total Disarmament was active from 1930 to 1936, chiefly in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Through public opinion and personal contacts, PCTD supporters pressured Congress to support total disarmament, including passage of the Frazier Amendment outlawing war. Other objectives of the Committee included a Congressional investigation of the munitions industry, opposition to all preparations and training for war (including ROTC), and support for conscientious...
Dates:
1930-1938
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Lydia G. Wentworth Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-041
Overview
Lydia G. Wentworth, was a writer and ardent peace advocate who lived most of her life in Brookline, Massachusetts. Despite illness which confined her to bed for over thirty years, she carried on a prolific correspondence and contributed hundreds of articles to newspapers and magazines.Wentworth believed that socialism and pacifism were synonymous. She campaigned vigorously against the nationalism which taught that war is a necessary evil, wholly unavoidable. She urged women to play a role in...
Dates:
1902-1947; Majority of material found within 1918-1947
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Names
- Allinson, Brent D. (Brent Dow) 1
- Babcock, Caroline L. (Caroline Lexow), 1882- 1
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 1
- Brockway, Fenner, 1888-1988 1
- Brown, H. Runham (Herbert Runham), 1879-1949 1
- Byrns, Elinor 1
- Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments (1932-1934) (Geneva, Switzerland) 1
- Cope, Eliza M. 1
- Cox, Lucy A. 1
- Drexel, Constance 1
- Dulles, Sophia H. 1
- Eves, William 1
- Frazier, Lynn J. (Lynn Joseph), 1874-1947 1
- Gordon, Lindley V. 1
- Harvey, William Brinton, 1862- 1
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 1
- Hoopes, Darlington, b. 1896 1
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 1
- Hull, William I. (William Isaac), 1868-1939 1
- Lazarus, Frieda Langer 1
- Lee, Jennie, 1904- 1
- Lief, Alfred, 1901- 1
- Mead, Lucia True Ames, 1856-1936 1
- Newton, Ray 1
- Nicholson, Vincent D. (Vincent De Witt), 1890-1945 1
- Pennsylvania Committee for Total Disarmament 1
- Ponsonby, Arthur Ponsonby, Baron, 1871-1946 1
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 1
- Smith, Tucker P. 1
- Strong, Sydney, 1860-1938 1
- Van Kirk, Walter W. (Walter William), 1891-1956 1
- Villard, Fanny Garrison, 1844-1928 1
- Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949 1
- Williams, H. Justice 1
- Wilson, E. Raymond (Edward Raymond), 1896-1987 1
- Winsor, Mary, 1869-1956 1
- Wright, Edward Needles, 1897- 1 ∧ less
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