League to Enforce Peace (U.S.) additional records
Overview
A portion of the records of the League to Enforce Peace (U.S.), an organization founded in 1914 to promote the establishment of an international body to ensure world peace.
Dates
- Creation: 1917-1923
Conditions Governing Access
There are no restrictions on physical access to this material.
Extent
0.33 linear feet (1 box)Includes correspondence, clippings, interviews, memoranda, and minutes. Topics documented include: finances, relations with individual members, actions of LEP president, organizational decisions, national conferences, relations with sympathizing foreign organizations, and LEP campaigns.
Biographical / Historical
League to Enforce Peace (U.S.) [LEP] was founded in New York City in 1914 by wealthy citizens alarmed at the outbreak of WWI. Its purpose was to work in the U.S. to establish an international organization to ensure world peace. The League's secretary was William H. Short; it's president, former U.S. President William Howard Taft. The League did not associate itself with pacifist opposition to WWI. With the establishment of the League of Nations,the LEP took upon itself organizing political and grassroot support for the association of the U.S. with the League of Nations. The LEP was moribund after the elections of 1920 and ceased to exist in 1923.
Arrangement
Arranged into the following series:
- I. Correspondence
- A. Correspondence with William Harrison Short
- B. Other Correspondence
- II. Other material
Immediate Source of Acquisition
98M-31. Gift of League of Nations Non-Partisan Association; received: 1925 June 4.
Processing Information
Processed by: Jan M. Dovenitz
- Title
- League to Enforce Peace (U.S.). League to Enforce Peace (U.S.) additional records, 1917-1923: Guide.
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hou00014
Repository Details
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