THE AMERICAN PEACE SOCIETY

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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
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• Publication Date: August 6, 1959
• Content Type: MEMO

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The American Peace Society
FOUNDED IN 1828
WAS INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF MASSACHUSETTS IN 1848.
PURPOSE
"To advance in every proper way the general use of conciliation, arbitration, ju-
dicial methods, and other peaceful means of avoiding and adjusting differences be-
tween nations, to the end that right shall rule might in a law-governed world."?
From the Constitution of the Society.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
Largely through the efforts of one man, William Ladd of Minot, Maine, the
American Peace Society was organized May 8, 1828 at the home of David Low
Dodge in New York City. It united some fifty local peace societies which had been
organized in several states. Headquarters of the American Peace Society, first located
in Boston, Massachusetts, were moved to Washington, D. C. in 1911.
Mr. Ladd was the first to advocate a Congress of Nations and a World Court. In
the 1830's the Society offered a cash prize for the best essay on "A Congress of Na-
tions," which resulted in a large volume, published by the Society in 1840, and circu-
lated widely here and abroad. In 1873 the International Law Association resulted
from the efforts of the Secretary of the Society, Mr. Miles, assisted by David Dudley
Field and others, travelling in Europe.
In the 1880's the Society was instrumental in promoting the movement for con-
vening the first International Conference of American States, which laid the founda-
tion for the Pan American Union.
Since 1895 the Society has oganized many large congresses at which leading states-
men and scholars have given addresses.
Through its representatives it has cooperated with other like-minded organizations,
and since 1920 its Secretary has been also Permanent Executive Secretary of the
United States Group of the Interparliamentary Union.
LITERATURE
Much of the best literature of the Peace Movement was originally produced for
meetings of the Society,-e.g. addresses by William Ellery Channing, William Ladd,
Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essay on War), Charles Sumner, William Jay, Elihu Bur-
ritt, Norman Angell, as well as Foreign Ambassadors and our own Senators and Con-
gressmen.
The Society has circulated many pamphlets from the beginning, and it has pub-
lished at least four times a year, since 1828, a magazine, now called WORLD AFFAIRS,
to inform and move public opinion toward the "tranquillity of order" among nations.
WORLD AFFAIRS welcomes constructive comments and proposals for world order and
peace. It neither sponsors nor censors any of the views expressed by its writers.
The Society owns and maintains a special collection of five thousand books on in-
ternational relations now in the custody of the American University, and open to per-
sons who wish to use the books on the premises.
The American Peace Society, under the terms of its charter, is a non-partisan,
non-sectarian and non-profit-making organization, free from motives of private
gain?the first of its kind in the world.
MEMBERSHIP CLASSES
Annual
$ 5.00
Sustaining
10.00
Contributing
25.00
Institutional
25.00
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A CATALYST FOR THE FORMULATION
OF PERMANENT PEACE
CARLTON B. Goss
GENEVA, 1959
PITMAN POTTER
METALS FOR PEACE
CHARLES WILL WRIGHT
A NEW LOOK AT LATIN AMERICAN
RELATIONS
HAROLD EUGENE DAVIS
THE IMPACT OF AIR POWER
WILI,IAM K. SKAER
VISION IN MALAYSIA
EDUARDO L. MARTELINO
THE INADEQUACY OF OUR MUTUAL
SECURITY SYSTEM
BENJAMIN H. WILLIAMS
VOL. 122, No. 2 SUMMER, 1959
PRICE
FIFTY CENTS
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AMERICAN PEACE SOCIETY
Founded 1828
1307 New Hampshire Ave., N. W., Washington 6, D. C.
OFFICERS
(Asterisk indicates Member of the
Executive Committee)
President
U. S. GRANT 3RD
Washington, D. C.
Vice Presidents
*HUSTON THOMPSON
Washington, D. C.
*MICHAEL FRANCIS DOYLE
Philadelphia, Pa.
Honorary Vice President
*THOMAS R. WHITE
Philadelphia, Pa.
Treasurer
*F. E. HILDEBRAND
Washington, D. C.
Executive Secretary
*FRANKLIN DUNHAM
Washington, D. C.
Editor
MARGARET A. BILLINGS
Directors
DONALD ARMSTRONG, Washington, D. C.
PHILIP MARSHALL BROWN, Williams-
town, Mass.
MRS. HAROLD H. BURTON, Washington,
D. C.
REV. FRED S. BUSCHMEYER, Washing-
ton, D. C.
*WILLIAM G. CARR, Washington, D. C.
J. REUBEN CLARK, JR., Salt Lake City,
Utah
ELLEN COLLINS, Washington, D. C.
RODERICK DAVISON, Washington, D. C.
WILLIAM CULLEN DENNIS, Richmond,
Indiana
HAROLD E. DAVIS, Washington, D. C.
L. ALTON DENSLOW, Washington, D. C.
*CHARLES G. FENWICK, Washington,
D. C.
HOMER FERGUSON, Washington, D. C.
PERCIVAL E. FOERDERER, Philadelphia,
Pa.
RABBI NORMAN GERSTENFELD, Wash-
ington, D. C.
RICHARD HEINDEL. Staten Island, N. Y.
*STANLEY K. HORNBECK, Washington,
D. C.
MRS. WILLIAM C. JOHNSTONE, Wash-
ington, D. C.
WALTER H. JUDD, Washington, D. C.
ELMER LOUIS KAYSER, Washington,
D. C.
KENNETH B. KEATING, Washington,
D. C.
WALDO G. LELAND, Washington, D. C.
PAUL M. LINEBARGER, Washington,
D. C.
CHARLES W. LOWRY, Washington, D. C.
REV. ALBERT J. MCCARTNEY, Washing-
ton, D. C.
A. J. MAXWELL, North Beach, Md.
ROBERT 0. MEAD, Paris, France
NEVILLE MILLER, Washington, D. C.
REV. WALTER A. MORGAN, Manchester,
N. H.
DENYS P. MYERS, Washington, D. C.
E. M. PATTERSON, Philadelphia, Pa.
*PITMAN B. POTTER, Geneva, Switzer-
land
ELWYN G. PRESTON, JR., Boston, Mass.
WILLIAM T. REED, Washington, D. C.
HELEN DWIGHT REID, Washington,
D. C.
CHARLES MASON REMEY, Haifa, Israel
*FRANCIS B. SAYRE, Washington, D. C.
HARRY SEMMES, Washington, D. C.
H. ALEXANDER SMITH, Princeton, N. J.
ARTHUR SWEETSER, Washington, D. C.
Louts J. TABER, Syracuse, N. Y.
Amos E. TAYLOR, Washington, D. C.
REV. JOSEPH F. THORNING, Frederick,
Md.
EDGAR TURLINGTON, Washington, D. C.
FRANCIS WHITE, Baltimore, Md.
A. CURTIS WiLcus, Gainesville, Fla.
LESTER H. WOOLSEY, Providence, R. I.
CHARLES J. ZINN, Washington, D. C.
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THE INTERNATIONAL PEACE ARCH
Dedicated to Everlasting Peace Between Two Nations, this Arch of Peace in contrast
to the Victory Arches to commemorate wars, was erected in 1921 on the United States-
Canadian boundary at, Blame, Washington. It commemorated over a century of peace. At
present the Peace Arch is the only monument of its kind in the world.
Above its peak are two flagstaffs, one flying the Stars and Stripes, and the other the flag
of Canada. Engraved at the top of the structure, on the United States side, are the words,
"Children of a Common Mother"; on the other, facing Canada, "Brethren Dwelling To-
gether in Unity." On the inside walls are two open iron gates bearing the inscription, "May
These Gates Never Be Closed."
In the base are bronze tablets depicting the Pilgrim ship "Mayflower" and the "Beaver,"
the first steam vessel to navigate the Pacific, and metal caskets containing a piece of the
Mayflower itself as well as historic documents and film describing the friendship between
the United States and Canada. During the years .of association there has been neither fort
nor soldier guarding the 3000-mile boundary from Atlantic to Pacific!
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