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Although there have always been those, especially among church members, who have espoused pacifist ideals, an overt British ‘peace movement’, intent on mobilising the public against war and all things military, only emerged in this century, gathering strength in the early 1930s. Signs of widespread interest in pacifism then began to appear in the literature of the day and in public and parliamentary debate.
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Quoted in Bertrand Russell, Which Way to Peace? (Michael Joseph, 1936) p. 37.
Donald Birn, The League of Nations Union 1918–1945 (Clarendon Press, 1981) pp. 11 and 130.
Ibid.
A. J. P. Taylor, The Trouble Makers (Panther Books, 1969) p. 156.
Birn, op. cit.
Martin Ceadel, ‘The Myths of King and Country’, The Times, 9 February 1983.
Adelaide Livingstone and Marjorie Johnstone, The Peace Ballot: the Official History (London, 1935).
W. S. Churchill, The Gathering Storm (Cassells, 1948) p. 152.
C. E. M. Joad, Journey Through the War Mind (1940) p. 98.
A. J. P. Taylor, The Trouble Makers (Panther Books, 1969) p. 167.
Churchill, op. cit., p. 100.
Fenner Brockway, Inside the Left (Allen & Unwin, 1942) pp. 339–40.
Churchill, op. cit., p. 176.
Partisan Review, March–April 1941, cited in Orwell and Angus (eds) Collected Essays (Seker & Warburg, 1968) pp. ii, 69.
See Angus Calder, The Peoples’ War: Britain 1939–1945 (Jonathan Cape, 1969) pp. 57–9; Communist Party of Great Britain: Memorandum by the Home Seceretary, WP (43) 109, 13 March, 1943.
Canon John Collins, Faith Under Fire (Leslie Frewin Publishers, 1966) p. 98.
Christopher Driver, The Disarmers (Hodder & Stoughton, 1964).
Peter Worsley, ‘Political Style’ in John Minnion and Philip Bolsover (Eds) The CND Story (Allison & Busby, 1983).
Collins, op. cit., p. 326.
Collins, op. cit., p. 332.
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Rose, C. (1985). Origin of the Peace Movement in the United Kingdom, 1930–62. In: Campaigns Against Western Defence. Rusi Defence Studies Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07526-3_8
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