No More War Movement

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The No More War Movement was the name of two

pacifist organisations, one in the United Kingdom
and one in New Zealand.

British Group

The British No More War Movement (NMWM) was founded in 1921 as a pacifist and socialist successor to the

Women's Co-operative Guild.[8] At its peak, the NMWM numbered around 3000 members, many from the Independent Labour Party.[1] In 1929, several prominent British intellectuals signed a statement, "Why I Believe in the No More War Movement", supporting the NMWM's aims.[9] The group published two journals: The New World and No More War.[8]

After Brockway resigned in 1929, and secretaries

Anarchists became increasingly prominent, but most left after the Movement, in accordance with its pacifist principles, refused to support the fighting of either side in the Spanish Civil War. In 1937 the organisation formally merged with the Peace Pledge Union, although the Midlands Council of the NMWM retained an independent existence for a year or so.[8]

New Zealand Group

The New Zealand NMWM was founded in the 1920s by Fred Page (1899–1930).[10][11][12] It strived to influence public opinion in New Zealand through petitions and public discussion.[11] By the late 1930s it was losing influence to two other New Zealand pacifist bodies: the New Zealand branch of the Peace Pledge Union, and Archibald Barrington and Ormond Burton's Christian Pacifist Society of New Zealand.[13]

NMWN UK Publications

  • No More War Movement: Remembrance: notes for Armistice Day (1927)
  • Disarmament by example by Arthur Ponsonby (1927)
  • Peace in our Time for all Time: The Rising Tide of War Resistance by Norman Cliff (1928)
  • Militarism unmasked by Walter H Ayles (1928)
  • The League's authority: war or public opinion? by A. Ruth Fry (1929)
  • Election Points for Pacifists (1929)
  • Fighting for Peace. The story of the war resistance movement. By W. J. Chamberlain, (1929)
  • The Church, the Bible and War by Hector Macpherson (1929)
  • A suppressed speech: militarism stripped too naked (1930)
  • Burn your gunboats. The case for complete disarmament by Walter H Ayles (1930)
  • Disarmament and unemployment by Walter H Ayles (1930)
  • Can Britain disarm?: a reasoned case in fourteen points by A. Fenner Brockway (1930?)
  • Youth and adventure: on which side shall I enlist? by Wilfred Wellock (1930?)
  • What Fighting Means by C. E. M. Joad (1930?)
  • Can the church lead the world to peace? by Hastings Russell, Duke of Bedford (1930)
  • War as viewed by Jesus and the early church: a body of evidence by Wilfred Wellock (1931?)
  • Will Disarmament Increase Unemployment? by Norman Angell (1931?)
  • The Draft Disarmament Convention and the world conference by Gerald Bailey (1931)
  • Gandhi's fast: its cause and significance by Reginald Reynolds (1932)
  • Disarmament or disaster?: a review of the first phase of the disarmament conference and an indictment of the British government's policy by A J Brown (1932)
  • Real cowards: a talk about the Disarmament Conference by "H. C." (1932)
  • Your country is in danger!: if you love your country you should give this letter your most serious consideration: an open letter to every patriot. (1932)
  • Shall We Arm the League? (1933)
  • Death's Jamboree by Joseph Gorman (1934?)
  • War and the workers: an appeal to the labour, trade union, and co-operative movements and the unemployed by Wilfred Wellock (1934)
  • Revolt in the churches against armaments and war: being a symposium of articles contributed by leaders of Christian thought in support of disarmament by example by Wilfred Wellock (1934)
  • Pacifism and the general strike. A constructive alternative to 'collective security' (1935)(with War Resisters' International)
  • The Roots of War. A Handbook on War and the Social Order. Published jointly by the Friends Anti-War Group and the No More War Movement. (1935)
  • You remember Abyssinia?: an analysis of events and some conclusions by Reginald Renyolds (1936)
  • The truth behind the Palestine riots. An information bulletin. by Reginald Reynolds (1936)
  • All about pacifism and armaments: something for Christians, trade unionists, Socialists, Liberals, Conservatives, co-operators, parents, teachers, women and militarists (1938)

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 0-19-924117-1
    (p. 432).
  2. ^
    ISBN 1-84596-456-X
    (pp. 63–64).
  3. ^
    ISBN 0-230-53763-4
    (p. 94).
  4. ^ Leslie Paul, Angry Young Man. Faber, 1951. (pp. 204, 284).
  5. ISBN 186064502X
    (p.154).
  6. ISBN 0-230-00648-5
    (p. 108).
  7. ^ Otto Nathan, Heinz Norden, Einstein on Peace. Simon and Schuster, 1960. (p. 91).
  8. ^ a b c Peter Barberis, John McHugh and Mike Tyldesley, Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations
  9. Emily Phipps, Canon Charles E. Raven, Rhys J. Davies, Hamilton Fyfe, the Marquis of Tavistock, Barbara Ayrton-Gould and Alfred Salter
    .
  10. ^ Lovell-Smith, Margaret. "Fred Page and the No More War Movement". Voices Against War. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
  11. ^ a b David Grant, Out in the Cold: Pacifists and Conscientious Objectors in New Zealand During World War II. Reed Methuen, 1986 (pp. 23–24).
  12. ISBN 0-908988-85-0
    (p. 93).
  13. ISBN 0-8020-4371-2
    (p. 293).
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