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JAN 4, 1970 Article

INAUGURAL NEWS LETTER - World Alliance for International Friendship Through the Churches

"The one word which Christianity does not know is 'isolation'. Every problem is now a world problem. Everything that effects [sic] one nation effects all ...

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JAN 4, 1970 Article

Hope Rises from Ashes of World War I: CPU President William Merrill

The first major initiative of the Church Peace Union (now Carnegie Council) was an international conference in southern Germany, opening on August 1, 1914. However, in a ...

Reinhold Niebuhr circa 1916

JAN 3, 1970 Article

Patriotism and Altruism: Prize-Winning Essay by Reinhold Niebuhr

As a response to World War I, in 1915-16 the Church Peace Union (now Carnegie Council) launched an innovative program of peace education in churches ...

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JAN 3, 1970 Article

Andrew Carnegie's Welcoming Words to Gathering of the Trustees of the CHURCH PEACE UNION [now Carnegie Council] at his Home, February 10, 1914

"Truly, gentlemen, you are making history, for this is the first union of the churches in advocacy of international peace, which I fondly hope, and ...

image of letter from Andrew Carnegie dated 1914

JAN 2, 1970 Article

UNION is the Word! February 4, 1914

What's in a name? Carnegie's preference for "Union" over "Foundation" for the name of his new peace organization likely reflected his insistence that the board ...