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{"value"=>"MssCol 6328", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"6328", "type"=>"local_mss"}
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{"value"=>"1917-1972", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1917/1972"}
{"value"=>"1937-1960", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1937/1960"}
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1917
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1972
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1917
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{"value"=>"Campaign for World Government. Records of the New York office"}
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. <span class=\"subarea\">Manuscripts and Archives Division</span></span> <div class=\"address\"><span class=\"addressline\">New York, New York</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"The Campaign for World Government, founded by Rosika Schwimmer and Lola Maverick Lloyd in December 1937, was among the first organizations to advocate a democratic federal world government. The Campaign was divided between two offices in separate cities, with the international campaign headquartered in New York City and the national campaign in Chicago. This collection consists of the records of the New York office, but documents both the Campaign's international and national efforts. Records of the Chicago office are described separately."}
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{"value"=>"<p>Campaign for World Government. Records of the New York office., Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"Campaign for World Government (Organization)", "type"=>"corpname"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Campaign for World Government was founded by the Hungarian pacifist Rosika Schwimmer and her friend and fellow veteran of World War I peace mediation efforts, Lola Maverick Lloyd. In 1937, disenchanted with the League of Nations and its perceived weaknesses, they announced the Campaign's mission to promote a federal world government directly representing the interests of the world's people, as opposed to the interests of states. While the specific methods promoted for achieving this goal shifted over the next several decades, the Campaign adhered to the concept of a populist global federalism throughout its existence.</p> <p>The Campaign's early platform was outlined in 1937 in their pamphlet \"Chaos, War or a New World Order?\" which called for the creation of a World Constitutional Convention. At this convention, it was hoped, a framework for a Federation of Nations would be formed, and democratic elections to the federation would be scheduled. Schwimmer and Lloyd included a tentative plan for this novel federal body, including full membership for all countries, direct representation, and several organs of government. Among the plan's elements were a new international date system, the abolition of all military bodies, the peaceful transfer of people out of population-dense regions, and a combined global free-trade and command economy.</p> <p>Over time, as Schwimmer and Lloyd recognized the increasing unlikelihood of national governments voluntarily forming a world government, their plan shifted emphasis to the peaceful popular demand for the election of such a body. Following this shift, the Campaign began to focus on national consciousness-raising and international conferences of other like-minded groups.</p> <p>Through congressional testimony, lobbying of legislators, national letter-writing campaigns, and participation in numerous world government conferences, the Campaign continued to advance its platform. Numbered among its successes was Hamilton Fish's introduction of a resolution at the1938 New York State Constitutional Convention encouraging President Roosevelt to call a world constitutional convention, and several Congressional resolutions and bills, including the \"Alexander Peace Bill\" (H.J.R. 610, 76th Cong. (1940), and the \"Tenerowicz Peace Bill\" (H.J.R. 131, 77th Cong. (1941).</p> <p>The Campaign was divided between two offices in separate cities, with the international campaign headquartered in New York City and the national campaign in Chicago. The organizational hierarchy was often amorphous in structure and job responsibilities overlapped. Until their deaths in 1944 and 1948, Lola Maverick Lloyd and Rosika Schwimmer were officially listed as co-directors, or occasionally \"international co-chairmen,\" heading up the Chicago and New York City offices, respectively. While Lola was active in drafting the Campaign's mission, records within the collection indicate her participation to have been largely titular in later years. Documentation in the Lola Maverick Lloyd Papers (see separate finding aid) indicates the financial role she played in the organization.</p> <p>In Chicago, William Bross Lloyd, Jr. headed the national campaign until 1944, when the draft for WWII led him to opt for alternate service at a conscientious objector camp. Previous to his departure, William regularly supervised Edith Wynner as head of the New York branch of his national campaign, while she simultaneously served as personal assistant to Madame Schwimmer in the international realm. There do not appear to have been regional or state branches other than Wynner's New York branch.</p> <p>Additional campaign staffing was informal and included the efforts of such family members as Madame Schwimmer's sister Franciska, and Lola's daughters, Mary and Jessie. Other staff included Caroline Lexow Babcock, Frances Bird, Katherine Devereux Blake, Tracy Mygatt, and Catherine Rumball.</p> <p>The overlapping offices and titles eventually resulted in discord between the two offices. Following Lola Maverick Lloyd's death in 1944, and William's departure for a civilian public service camp, the friction over authority and mission led to a falling-out between the Lloyd children and Rosika Schwimmer. In 1945, the organization split into two bodies, with Edith Wynner taking the lead of the International Campaign for World Government in New York, and Georgia Lloyd leading the Campaign under its previous title in Chicago.</p>"}
- custodhist
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{"value"=>"<p>The Campaign for World Government records were originally donated and arranged as series T of the Schwimmer-Lloyd Collection. This series was reprocessed in 2006 as the Campaign for World Government Records. Although now a separate collection, it remains under the administrative aegis of the Schwimmer-Lloyd Collection. For materials on other world government organizations previously located with the Campaign for World Government records, readers are directed to review series T of the Schwimmer-Lloyd Collection finding aid.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Campaign for World Government Records document the activities of the organization in its attempts to lobby for a federal world government and shed light on other initiatives for international cooperation. The staff collected and produced information on the League of Nations, the United Nations, innumerable anti-war and world government conferences, and major world events they felt illustrated the need for a federal world government. The bulk of the materials in this collection stem from the 1930s through the 1960s.</p> <p>The records of the organization are arranged in four series which consist of both materials generated by the Campaign--such as correspondence, reports, publications, and writings--and a large amount of material from other organizations--including press releases, newsletters and pamphlets. The collection also contains participant packets containing programs, agendas, final reports, notes, and papers presented at various international conferences. A small number of photographs are present, scattered throughout the collection.</p> <p>The collection is predominantly in English, with occasional documents in other European languages, including Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, and Swedish. Many of the notes included throughout the collection were taken in shorthand.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Campaign for World Government. Records of the New York office is arranged in four series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/6328#c258422'>Series I. Correspondence</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1933-1970, n.d.</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>7 boxes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Correspondence is divided into two subseries: General Correspondence and Federation of Nations, each arranged chronologically by month.</p> <p>The correspondence consists of both incoming and outgoing letters. Notes on many of the letters indicate they were typescript copies of original correspondence, made to be circulated between the New York and Chicago offices. In addition, many items are labeled with two dates: the date of creation, and a stamped date noting date received. All items have been arranged by date of creation, except in cases where date received was the only available information.</p> <p>Prominent correspondents include: John G. Alexander, Devere Allen, Emily Green Balch, Stringfellow Barr, Crichton Clarke, Dorothy Detzer, Fyke Farmer, Hamilton Fish, Philip Isely, A.J. Muste, Vernon Nash, Joseph P. Nye, Thane Read, Clarence Streit, Rudolph Tenerowicz, Henry Usborne and Jerry Voorhis.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/6328#c258433'>Series II. Writings</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1917-1960, n.d.</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>3 boxes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Records created by the Campaign for World Government over the course of its activities are arranged in four subseries, the bulk of which consist of publications and staff writings. Also included are reports, interviews and a small amount of financial material. All materials are arranged chronologically by month.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/6328#c258458'>Series III. Campaigns and conferences</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1924, 1937-1972, n.d.</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>17 boxes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Forming the bulk of the collection, campaign and conference materials relate to various projects with which the Campaign for World Government was involved. These projects range from congressional bills sponsored by the Campaign, such as the Alexander Peace Bill, to their 1937-1939 public attempts to challenge Clarence Streit and his competing plan. Also present is a significant amount of material from world government confererences, including many files on the World Movement for World Federal Government, beginning with the 1947 meeting in Montreux, Switzerland and ending with the 1955 gathering in Paris.</p> <p>Campaign materials generally consist of working papers, correspondence, notes, reports, drafts, and printed matter. In the case of legislative bills, there are printed copies of the resolutions and bills, as well as occasional mailing lists.</p> <p>Materials stemming from conferences consist of conference participant packets, agendas and minutes, reports and resolutions, correspondence, printed matter and working papers, and occasional photographs.</p> <p>All materials are arranged chronologically by month.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/6328#c258594'>Series IV. Topical files</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1924, 1932-1969, n.d.</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>7 boxes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The Topical Files consist primarily of reference materials Campaign staff collected for use in support of their writings and daily activities. These files focus on subjects deemed of practical use and personal interest, especially individuals and organizations with which they collaborated or whom they considered necessary to monitor. There are files on events attended, and on general topics such as universal disarmament or the Spanish Civil War. Each topical file largely consists of printed matter published by the entities in question, and material writen about them. Many folders also include correspondence, memoranda, and reports.</p> <p>Items of particular interest are the collection of alternate peace plans proposed by variety of their \"competitors',\" often heavily marked with editorial and substantive criticisms; and the files concerning the League of Nations and the United Nations, which contain analyses of the organizations' failings and the changes needed to remedy them. Also of note are the materials related to the World Movement for World Federal Government, one of the most widespread early movements for world government, which began at the Montreux Conference of 1947 and is still active today as the World Federalist Movement. Researchers interested in the World Movement for World Federal Government are advised to also see their conference materials in Series III.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>The Campaign for World Government. Records of the New York office. are organized in the following series:</p> <ul> <li>Series I. Correspondence, 1933-1970, n.d.</li> <li>Series II. Writings, 1917-1960, n.d.</li> <li>Series III. Campaigns and conferences, 1924, 1937-1972, n.d.</li> <li>Series IV. Topical files, 1924, 1932-1969, n.d.</li></ul>", "supress_display"=>true}
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{"value"=>"<p>Schwimmer-Lloyd Collection</p>"}
- relatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"archref\">American Movement for World Government Records, ca. 1953-1987. Manuscripts and Archives Division. The New York Public Library.</span><span class=\"archref\">Schwimmer-Lloyd Collection. Manuscripts and Archives Division. The New York Public Library.</span><span class=\"archref\">United World Federalists (U.S.). New York State Branch Records, 1942-1950. Manuscripts and Archives Division. The New York Public Library.</span>"}
- note
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{"value"=>"<p>Records of the Chicago office, Campaign for World Government are described separately</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}
- langmaterial_code
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eng
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Laura Ruttum; machine readable finding aid created by FAKER.</p>"}
- extent_statement
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14.25 linear feet (34 boxes)
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1917
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1972
- date_bulk_start
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1937
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1960