
How Did the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Campaign against Chemical Warfare, 1915-1930?Document List
The Debate Over Chemical Warfare
Document 1: "Germans Use Blinding Gas to Aid Poison Fumes," 27 April 1915
Document 2: "French Mowed Down in Flight From Gas Rain," 28 April 1915
Document 3: Letter to the Editor, "War No Parlor Game," 28 April 1915
Document 4: "Moral Aspects of Asphyxiation," June 1915
Document 5: "Personal Glimpses: German Gas-Attacks," July 1917
Document 6: "’Viper’ Weapons," December 1921
Document 7: Amos Fries and Clarence West, "The Future of Chemical Warfare," 1921
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International WILPF Committee on Chemical Warfare
Image 1: Käthe Kollwitz, "The Survivors," 1923
Image 2: Käthe Kollwitz, "Never Again War," 1924
Document 8: "Newsletter from Geneva," November 1924
Document 9: Minutes of the Meeting of the Committee Against Scientific Warfare, 4 May 1925
Document 10: Report on the Work of the Committee Against Scientific Warfare, 4 May 1925
Document 11: Gertrud Woker, The Next War, A War of Poison Gas, [before 1927]
Document 12: Paul Langevin, "Declaration: For Signature by Scientific Men and Women," 1929
Document 13: Letter from Naima Sahlbom to National Sections, 25 November 1929
Document 14: Modern Methods of Warfare and the Protection of the Civil Population, 1929
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WILPF U.S. Section Activities to Outlaw Chemical Warfare
Document 15: Cartoon: "Do You Mean to Say I’ve Got to Raise the Family on This?" [1921]
Document 16: Flyer: "Tell the Child the Truth about these things!" [early 1920s]
Document 17: Statement of Mrs. Harriet Connor Brown on World Disarmament before the Committee on Military Affairs, House of Representatives, 11 January 1921
Document 18: Statements by Members of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom on Reduction of the Army before the Senate Subcommittee on Appropriations, 18 April 1922
Document 19: Letter from Dorothy Detzer to Dr. Charles Parsons, 19 March 1925
Document 20: Can We Outlaw Poison Gas? [1927]
Document 21: "International Economics versus National Politics," 1930
Document 22: Cartoon: "Wanted: Millions of the Young," early 1930s
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