Adelaide Livingstone

Adelaide Livingstone

Dame Adelaide Stickney Lord Livingstone, DBE (died 1970) was responsible for organising the Peace Ballot in 1934-35 to gauge the British public's sentiment in the winds of upcoming war with a rearming and aggressive Germany led by Adolf Hitler.

Livingstone, described as "a nominal Conservative", was appointed secretary of the National Referendum Committee on 11 April 1935. She later became Vice President of the United Nations Association.

Livingstone authored "The Peace Ballot: The Official History" in 1935; although publisher Victor Gollancz was criticised for reportedly rushing to publish before the final votes had been tabulated.

Correspondence regarding the above; including Trades Union Congress ... support for; subsequent National Peace Ballot ... results of the ballot ... [and] [d] ocuments including reports, memoranda are located in the Trades Union Congress archives.

International Peace Campaign

This campaign emerged in early 1936, following the Peace Ballot organised in Britain by Dame Adelaide Livingstone. Its Joint Presidents were Viscount Cecil and Pierre Cot, Air Minister in the French "Popular Front" government.

The IPC aimed to co-ordinate the work of existing pacifist organisations and other groups opposed to war, and campaigned in support of the League of Nations on a policy of respect for treaty obligations, arms reduction and the peaceful resolution of conflict. After the outbreak of war, the campaign had difficulty sustaining its activities and was wound up in early 1941.

Links

* [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/pidocs.asp?P=P17618]
* [http://www.hull.ac.uk/oldlib/archives/pressure/ipc.html]

References

* Livingstone, (Dame) Adelaide, "The Peace Ballot: The Official History". London: Gollancz, 1935.


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