Peace movements -- Europe -- History -- Sources
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
American Peace Society Records
Comité pour le Désarmament Nucléaire en Europe Collection
Correspondence, flyers and handbills, minutes of meetings, newspaper clippings, and periodicals; all are in French.
George Nasmyth and Florence Nasmyth Papers
George W. Nasmyth was educated at Cornell, Berlin, Gottingen, Heidelburg and Zurich. He dedicate his life to the cause of international understanding and peace. In 1919, he attended the Paris Peace Conference, and to organize the first meeting since the outbreak of the war of the World Alliance for Friendship Through the Churches. He died of a typhus infection at the age of 39, on September 20, 1920. Florence Nasmyth was a writer on peace issues.
Martha Schofield Papers
Bertha von Suttner Collected Papers
Bertha von Suttner was an Austrian peace activist and intellectual, and the author of one of the first international bestselling novels focused on peace ("Lay Down Your Arms") published in 1891. In her life-long correspondence on peace matters with Alfred Nobel she urged him to establish a prize for peace. Von Suttner was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1905, the first woman to be thus recognized.
