Series D: Militarism, circa 1911-1970s

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.