Sydney D. Bailey

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Sydney D. Bailey
Hull, England
Died26 November 1995(1995-11-26) (aged 79)
London, England
Known forPacifism
Studying the United Nations
Spouse
Jennie Friedrich
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(m. 1945)​
Childrentwo

Sydney Dawson Bailey (1 or 2 September 1916 – 26 November 1995) was an English author, pacifist, and expert on international affairs. He worked at and was head of the Quaker United Nations Office during the 1950s. He was a conscientious objector during World War II, and spent several years in the Friends' Ambulance Unit. Bailey wrote 17 books and worked at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from 1958 to 1960 as a visiting scholar.[1] He then left the endowment and was involved in various negotiations and advisory councils before his death in 1995.[1]

Biography

Sydney Dawson Bailey was born on 1 or 2 September 1916, in

Burma and China from 1940 to 1946. While with the unit, he was infected with schistosomiasis, which Bailey would deal with for much of his life. It partially paralyzed him, and he would later use a wheelchair. He formally became a member of the Quakers while in China,[1][2][4][5] and, upon returning to England, he married Jennie Elena Brenda Friedrich (1923-2021) on 26 April 1945. They had a son and daughter.[2][3] For several years after the war ended, Bailey worked as a bank teller and then briefly in insurance.[6] He also helped people left homeless by The Blitz. Bailey also edited the National News-Letter of Stephen King-Hall.[3] From 1948 to 1954, he served as secretary of the Hansard Society.[2]

Bailey taught himself

British Council of Churches[5] and was a member of the Anglican Working Party.[7]

From 1952 to 1976 Bailey organized several 10-day conferences, where diplomats from nations around the world met, notably including groups that "were not on talking terms" like the

nuclear deterrence, because he understood "strategic realities of the Cold War".[8] Bailey died on 26 November 1995, at his home in North London.[1]

After his death, the CCAD established a fund in his memory, part of which went towards establishing the "Sydney Bailey Memorial Lecture", which was first given on 10 March 1997, by Prince Hassan bin Talal.[7]

Partial bibliography

https://archive.org/details/peaceisprocess0000bail/page/n3/mode/2up

Sources

  1. ^
    ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 1 May 2020.
  2. ^
    ISBN 978-0-8103-1985-1
    – via Internet Archive.
  3. ^ a b c "Sydney Bailey". The Daily Telegraph. 2 December 1995. p. 21.
  4. ^ a b c d e f Oestreicher, Paul (30 November 1995). "Obituary: Sydney Bailey". The Independent. p. 16. Archived from the original on 26 May 2022.
  5. ^
    Newspapers.com
    .
  6. ^ a b "Sydney Bailey; Obituary". The Times. 30 November 1995. p. 1.
  7. ^
    ISBN 978-1-349-14443-3
    .
  8. JSTOR 43251662
    .

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