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— AMPRICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES. ‘UNION (Formerly CIVIL LIBERTIES BUREAU & NATIL CIVIL LIBERTIES BUREAU) HISTORY | _ | DEVELOP :6 or ‘suertoan LEAGUE TO. tite ARMAMENTS; DEC. 18, 1914, INTO. | - ‘THE: AMERICAN CIVIL. LIBERTIES UNION, \ JANUARY 1930, TES 7) (On Begenber. 18, 1914, when the: Rnezgengy Peace Foderatt or: ‘bean’ te lenesr campaign. under Louis Lochner dn. Chicago, the Anezican heegue to. Limit Armaments was organized in New York City. With the. out break of the war in 1ei4 the majority of the American Public was. in eympathy with be he. Bntente, German propagandist, ‘{n- order to prevent our: entrance: nto was dgatinet Germany , and to” ‘p¥event. military Preparedness, created | organtzatioie’ for the purpose of holding mass neetings, @ietributing: L011 f4 st itterature, ueing their infiuenos with. Congress to ‘prevent ‘ene | tment of: ema enlarging military establishment ana also for the purpose) piston,” “awentoan’ ‘iriaoe 7 ite Jor bat miBitarten, Aa ovement. directed. by Louis Lochner of: ‘Gntoage. " Ationg. ‘them are Jana adams, . Rev. . John Haynes Holmes, Dry Jeoques. Loeb, Oswald Garrigon. anes (zattor « of ‘sneeson"), Morris Hiiauit,, ‘Hamilton Holt, Lillian De ward, te. These persons were able to enlist, many thoroughly patriotic oitt- ens who withdrew from the movement. as. 8000 as. they: discovered the anten- - ions of the. leaders and when they saw the. nature of the international roblems confronting the United States. J In the early part of 1915, the menbers of the executive committee - f thie League felt that its scope was not wide enough and the anté-