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Ronald E. Gundry Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Great Britain-Gundry, Ronald E.

Scope and Contents

Correspondence and meeting minutes; membership lists, books and periodicals. Includes information about the Peacemakers' Pilgrimage: Women's Campaign for Law Not War; the Youth Section of the No More War Movement [British Section of War Resisters' International]; the League of Nations Union; and the Teachers' Anti-War Movement

Dates

  • Creation: Majority of material found within 1919-1939

Creator

Language of Materials

Materials are in English.

Conditions Governing Access

None.

Conditions Governing Use

None.

Biographical note

Ronald Gundry earned an M.A. probably from Balliol College, Oxford University, and lived in Staines, Middlesex as a young man and later in Richmond, Surrey. In the summer of 1921 he traveled to Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia to investigate student conditions in universities, on behalf of the Universities' Committee of the Imperial War Relief Fund and the International Committee of Young Men's Christian Associations. In 1920, he served as the Honorable Secretary of the Staines Branch of the League of Nations Union; in 1921, as the Secretary of Delegations for the Oxford International Assembly; in 1925-1926 (and other years?), as the Treasurer of the Youth Section of the No More War Movement; and in 1927, as Competition Secretary for the Festival of Youth sponsored by the League of Nations Union.

Extent

0.42 linear ft. (5 linear in.)

Abstract

Ronald E. Gundry was involved in a number of peace organizations, particularly related to the League of Nations, in the 1920s and 1930s in Great Britain.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Ronald Gundry, 1948.

Separated Materials

Posters have been removed to the Poster Collection.

Legal Status

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Processing Information

Processed by SCPC staff; checklist created by Anne M. Yoder, Archivist, July 1998

Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

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