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CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION AND PACIFISM 1939-44
TC6: 3 boxes
BOX 1 : LEGAL AND SOCIAL SITUATION OF COs
6/1/A:
"Report on Conscientious Objectors" (July 1940)
Letter: to New Statesman with reference to "Report"
6/1/B: Tribunal Hearings for COs
Fulham 18.1.40 (KB)
Bloomsbury 16.1.40 (TB)
Southwark 3.4.40 (PF)
Law Courts 31.8.40 (HP)
Fulham 14.1.42 (HP)
Fulham 24.2.42 (VT)
First Women's Tribunal: Fulham 25.5.42 (PJ)
Impressions 12.11.40 (JS)
After the Tribunal 26.6.40 (RMF)
Mock Tribunal: Walthamstow 14.3 40 (AFC)
Mock Tribunal: Walthamstow 22.1.40 (AFC)
Opinions on a particular case 23.10.40
Abstract of National Service Act 1939
Sample applications to Tribunal: R Frank, A Tucker, D Spreckley, J Snow, A Hughes, L Ackermann, Jenkins to Ministry of Labour
- Appeal Tribunals
- 6.12.39 London SW1 (BA)
- 2.4.41 'Leonard', London W7
- 17.4.41 (DS)
- Leaflets
- "Before the Tribunal' Fellowship of Reconciliation
- Walthamstow and District Advisory Committee for Objectors and Conscripts, Bulletin, March 1940
- Central Board for Concientious Objectors Bulletin, February 1941
6/1/C:
Report on CO Tribunals 2.2.40 (AFC)
Report on Tribunals (6 parts) (JGF)
6/1/D:Press cuttings : CO Tribunals
6/1/E: Employment of COs
Treatment of COs by Birmingham Corporation and establishment of Community Centres 12.11.40 (GOO)
Trade Unions and COs 21.4.40 (JA)
Co-op attitude to COs etc
Jobs of COs 6.40
Christian Pacifist Forestry Units: Letter and Leaflet 25.7.40
Letter from RF 3.12.40
Farm Diary 9.9.40 (RF)
Various Press Reports 28.6.40 (CF)
Various Press Reports
Press cuttings on employment of COs etc
Copy Memo for establishment of pacifist settlement: Lindors Settlement Ltd. 18.3.42
BOX 2 : CULTURAL ASPECTS
6/2/A: Various Pacifist Events: Observer Reports
AGM of Peace Pledge Union (PPU) 25.4.42 (PJ)
Adelphi Centre 14.2.42 (MC)
Letter from John Snow 2.10.40
Report on Armistice meeting of Council of Christian Pacifist Groups (CM)
Note on PPU and Quakers (10.40)
"Peace is Possible Now"-Report 3.4.40 (SS)
Observations 19.5.40 (CP)
Letter: PPU Meetings 17.4.40 (CVC)
British Youth Peace Assembly Dance: Report; also PPU meeting 29.5.40
Meeting at Dick Sheppard Centre 10.1.40 (HP)
Various items (KB)
Various items (AFC)
Overheads etc
Debate (report) 28.03.38 Left Bookclub and PPU on Peace
CO Fellowship meeting on prison experiences, Letchworth 24.10.44
6/2/B: Cultural Notes
Notes on "Old Soldiers Never Die" (LE)
Notes on reading and films by John Snow
Note on delivery of Peace News (RF)
Summary of Peace News 5.1.40 (AFC)
Some circulation figures (JH)
4 analytic tables of CO and Pacifist literature
6/2/C: Pacifism in Great Britain
Pacifism in St. Albans 13.3.40
Pacifist Movement in Great Britain (LO)
The Church and Pacifism
Interview with Rev. Singleton
Interview with Rev. H
Extract from the Christian Register April 1940
Extract from Unity March 1940
Welsh Nationalists (AFC)
University Students and the War (Scotland)
6/2/D: Pamphlets, Leaflets etc
National Peace Council
Peace Pledge Union
Fellowship of Reconciliation
Friends Society
Various pamphlets: religious and political
Two photos of people distributing PPU leaflets
Pacifist Service Units booklet
6/2/E: Miscellaneous
Extract from Manchester Guardian covering fracas at Royal Ceremony on Armistice Day, November 1938
1 notebook: Tom Harrisson
Handwritten notes: Tom Harrisson
Copies of correspondence of Peter Grant on various issues relating to his conscientious objection
Various correspondence with M-O
Copy Hansard, p 678, 11.4.40
Opinion in the RAF
Attitudes in the Forces (Army) to COs 26.11.44 (LE)
Prison experiences: personal reports, August 1944
Various papers, unplaceable
BOX 3 : SURVEYS
6/3/A: Pacifist Questionnaire
Sample questions and answers 4.4.40 (BW)
19 answer lists
8 answer lists with additional material, biographical and impressions of subject
1 unplaced sheet signed AFC
3 sheets analytic tables
6/3/B: Pacifism Interview
Fulham: show questions 3.4.40 (HN)
Various: April 1940 (MB)
Attitudes to Churchill, Chamberlain, Russia, Hitler
6/3/C: Pacifism Interview (cont)
Questions 20.8.40 (DH)
Fulham 29.8.40 (CF)
Fulham 28.8.40 (LE)
Fulham 6.4.40 (BA)
Report on COs and Pacifist Activities
"Results of Analysis"-Table and tabulated answers
5 tables
"Pacifist Opinion forming" (BW)
6/3/D: Statistics
Figures from PPU 25.6.40 (RG)
Page of COs in total registration (AFC)
Bulletin of Central Board for Concientious Objectors (January 1940)- giving figures
Press cuttings
Registration figures
3 analytic tables of CO registration under 1939 Act
Press cuttings
6/3/E: Opinion Forming
"Pacifist Opinion Forming" 1 typed page, 24.3.40 (BW)
Memo to TH (pencilled)
Memo to TH (2 sheets typed) on Investigation into opinion forming, 23.3.40 (BW)
Typed memo (4pp) from TH on CO survey 27.3.40
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