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{"value"=>"1937-1941", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1937/1941"}
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{"value"=>"Subseries I. C. American Union for Concerted Peace Efforts"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The American Union for Concerted Peace Efforts (AUCPE) was founded in October of 1937 by officers of national peace organizations in response to President Roosevelt's \"Quarantine\" speech of October 5, 1937. Eichelberger was the AUCPE director, William H. Hinckley, its secretary, and Hugh Moore its chairman. The group at first adopted the informal working title of \"Pro-League Bloc,\" which in December was changed to Committee for Concerted Peace Efforts, and in the spring of 1939, to American Union for Concerted Peace Efforts.</p> <p>AUCPE's objectives were similar to those of the League of Nations Association, with the exception that the AUCPE attempted to concentrate on the immediate objective of securing international peace. In 1939, its chief projects were the organization of a Conference of One Hundred (April 15-16), and Peace and Security Week (April 26-May 3).</p> <p>In the fall of 1939, following the outbreak of war in Europe, AUCPE organized the Non-Partisan Committee for Revision of the Neutrality Law under the chairmanship of William Allen White. After the AUCPE succeeded in forming in 1940, a second William Allen White committee, the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, it virtually ceased its own organizational existence.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The records of the American Union for Concerted Peace Efforts, which are arranged topically and are only partially sorted, include correspondence of the director and secretary, meeting minutes of the executive board, memoranda, press releases, newsletters, and printed ephemera.</p>"}
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1937
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1937
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1941
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1937
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1941