II. Subject files

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382181
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{"value"=>"1932", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1932"}
{"value"=>"1935-1995", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1935/1995"}
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{"value"=>"<p>This series consists of subject headings containing correspondence, writings, notes, photographs and press releases, arranged alphabetically. Four of the major units in which the files are arranged date from 1938-1944, when William Bross Lloyd, Jr. was running the Campaign. These are Campaign Organization, Congress, International Affairs, and Peace and International Organizations. The remainder of the file headings date from Georgia Lloyd's time leading the campaign from 1944 until the mid-1990s. The largest of these are Congressional questionnaires, National Political Conventions, Organizations, People, and the United Nations.</p> <p>Campaign Organization contains files documenting all activities of the Campaign under William Lloyd's direction. These included lobbying Congressman for legislation (including the Alexander Peace Bill), and public education and grassroots advocacy, with the primary goal at that time of preventing the entry of the United States into World War II. These files also include speeches by William Bross Lloyd and correspondence and writings by Rosika Schwimmer. The folder in this heading labeled Office opening contains a rare photograph of Rosika Schwimmer and Lola Maverick Lloyd together, ca. 1938. The folder labeled Publicity contains a photograph of Georgia Lloyd marching in a peace demonstration in 1940.</p> <p>The Congress heading also documents the Campaign's government lobbying activity and contains correspondence with Congressmen and Senators regarding peace resolutions. The Congressional questionnaires heading contains surveys the Campaign periodically sent out to candidates for Congress to determine the level of support for world government and peace issues, as well as the responses sent back by the candidates, some of them quite detailed. Also in the political realm, the Campaign tried to influence the composition of Democratic and Republican platforms at their national conventions from 1940-1968. Correspondence regarding these efforts is under National political conventions.</p> <p>The International affairs heading contains correspondence and memos regarding a wide variety of issues both domestic and international, but focusing mainly on economic and political points of conflict globally. This heading contains personal correspondence from Lola Maverick Lloyd.</p> <p>Two consecutive headings, Organizations and Peace and International Organizations, have similar content, the only difference being time of creation. These contain correspondence with and information about other private and non-governmental organizations concerned with peace and world government. The files contain documentation of conferences attended by Campaign members (usually Georgia Lloyd), including the Campaign for the World People's Convention Pocono conference of 1947 and the People's World Convention conference in Ghent, Belgium. There are also folders documenting various meetings in the 1950s and 1960s of the World Association of World Federalists and the World Movement for World Federal Government.</p> <p>The United Nations files contain Georgia Lloyd's notebooks from the 1944 Dumbarton Oaks conference, as well as documentation of efforts the Campaign made over the years to reform the UN and make it into more of a governmental body.</p>"}
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1932
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1995
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1932
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1932
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1995

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  1. Campaign organization [49/1]
  2. Congress [22/2]
  3. Congressional questionnaires [10/1]
  4. Esperanto
  5. Federal union
  6. Illinois Conference on World Government
  7. Illinois Federalist Campaign
  8. International affairs [71/1]
  9. International Conference of Federalists
  10. Literature orders [4/1]
  11. Meeting minutes
  12. Montreux Congress of World Federalists
  13. National political conventions [2/2]
  14. Nehru, Jawaharlal
  15. Organizations [50/1]
  16. Peace and international organizations [81/1]
  17. People [28/1]
  18. People's World Convention - Ghent conference
  19. Petitions
  20. Pocono conference - Campaign for the World People's Convention
  21. Radio programs
  22. United Nations [2/1]
  23. War Resisters League
  24. World Citizens Forum
  25. World Council for the World People's Convention
  26. World Government Week