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Mahatma Gandhi spinning yarn, in the late 1920s. Public Domain via <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi#/media/File:Gandhi_spinning.jpg">Wikipedia</a>

JAN 5, 1970 Article

Visiting Mahatma Gandhi, 1929

In 1928-29, Henry Atkinson, president of the Church Peace Union (now Carnegie Council) took a five-month trip through Asia to meet with religious leaders and ...

Members of the Heldenmuth family board the SS St. Louis in Hamburg harbor. U.S. Government photo, via <a hre="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StLouisHamburg.jpg">Wikipedia</a>.

JAN 5, 1970 Article

"Intolerance in America" and "America and Refugees"

"Intolerance expressing itself in prejudice and hatred for the Jew will not end there; in fact, it threatens the very structure of democracy and religious ...

Carrie Chapman Catt. Carnegie Council archives.

JAN 4, 1970 Article

Fighting for a Lasting Peace

In the mid-1920s the Church Peace Union and international organization it created, the World Alliance for International Friendship, campaigned hard for a lasting peace.

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 ...

Photo of William P. Merrill from our archives

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 ...