Peace News is a magazine first published on 6 June 1936 to serve the peace movement. From later in 1936 to April 1961 it was the official paper of the Peace Pledge Union.From 1940 to 1946 the paper's editor was John Middleton Murry. [1] Hugh Brock was editor during the period 1955-1964; his successor was Theodore Roszak. [2] The magazine campaigned against nuclear weapons and the Vietnam War,often working with CND.[3] In the 1970s, it called for the British Army to withdraw from Northern Ireland. [4]
It was at the Peace News office at 5 Caledonian Road, London. N.1. that the CND (peace symbol) was adopted.[5]
References
- ^ Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations by Peter Barberis, John McHugh, Mike Tyldesley. Continuum 2005 (pg 344).
- ^ Against the Bomb: the British Peace Movement, 1958-1965 by Richard K. S. Taylor. Oxford University Press, 1988 (pgs. 118,271).
- ^ Articles of Peace: Celebrating Fifty Years of Peace News by Gail Chester and Andrew Rigby.Prism, 1986 (pg. 69).
- ^ Barberis,McHugh, and Tyldesley,pg.344
- ^ CND-The disarmament symbol
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