◆ SpookStack

wa arr an? for fhe Peace Eeformation Canter were es- fo a eral office im Now York City, and the work extitled Peacegrem. peace developments, euch ¢vents as these: sttee ; : $0,000 oe committees Tent Bombay, Budapest thousands attend peace con- ferences and call for banning atomic weapons. . - - Geneve: Worldwide appeal to outlaw atomic weapons launched by Ioternational Red “Gross Gommittee. “oe United Statcs: Philadelphia—Women au campaign for peace. . - . Boston—Massac paernye Committee for Peace inaugurates cam for me votes to outlaw the atom bomb, for gener and immediate peace talks between the great powers aes Chicago—Mid-Century Conference for Peace called by Committee for Peaceful Alternatives. .. . The There was nothing pretentious about the Peacegram. terse facts filling its four multigraphed pages were pre- = scnted without stylistic embellishment or editorial comment. the facts had an eloquence of their own. Potters began pouring into the office of the Peace In- Pacific coast, the if tion Center. They came from the ; i deep South and the midland plains, from great industrial i = i centers and obscure little towns, from organizations and individuals. They enthusiastically hailed the establishment _ ‘acerly requested more news of the world eae eee ateand tuberantly tuld of local Peace ac tivities—of forming peace councils and holding peace hes of staging demonstrations, distributing, eae’ Crews reulat °6 petitions. In different words, they all voi samme mt -: a - *. —_ - : ced ms ~rie™ . t LP ete a _ ; a “It is not simply thal we Seer that we shal! die. ._ ¥t is the fear that the whole human enterprise is washed up and hopeless.” But there were Americans, added the eminent churchman, who refused to resign themselves to the ineffable disaster of another war. “We still believe that peace is possible . .. we do not believe that there are any differences between us and our potential enemies great enough to justify mutual destruction.” The beliefs of Dr. Thompson were fervently shared br the founders of the Peace Information Center. OF urgent moment, they felt, was the spreading of knowledge about the tidal wave of peace sentiment sweeping through the world. Day and night, the American press and radio were bruiting dire prophecies of war and portentous accounts of the imminent danger of armed attack. Scarcely a whisper _ Was to be heard about mammoth peace conferences in Paris, Rome, Bomhay and Prague, or the activities of multiple peace groups in the United States. Yet what was of more Momentous concem than that the peoples of all Jands be tnadc aware of their common hopes and strivings fur peace? What, indeed, could more surely advance the cause of peace than the dissemination of this Knowledge? Reasoning thus, the founders of the Peace Infurmation _ Center set these as the organization's chief objectives: to publicize facts about peace endeavors of all sorts in America and throughout the rest of the world; and to provide media for the interchange of ideas for the promotion of peace and amity among the nations. . A cme ae weer