Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)
Classmark: BC MS 20c Herbert Read/11/26
Related People: Graham Greene(Sender); Sir Herbert E. Read(Recipient)
Creator(s): Greene, Graham (1904-1991); ; Berger, John
Date(s): 3 Jan 1957 - 24 May 1968
Size and medium: 1 file
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/692578
Collection group(s): Herbert Read Collection
Description
This file contains correspondence and associated material relating to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND).
The CND was formed in November 1957 by a committee including Canon John Collins as Chairman, Bertrand Russell as President and Peggy Duff as Organising Secretary. Russell later resigned his presidency to form the Committee of 100 in 1960, and many members followed him to the new organisation. Herbert Read was a sponsor of the CND and original signatory of the Committee of 100.
Correspondence includes letters to Herbert Read from Peggy Duff; W. R. T. Gore, Secretary of the British Peace Committee; Kaoru Yasui, Director-General of the Japan Council against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs; John Berger, novelist and art critic; Pandit C. N. Malviya and Fernand Vigne of the Congress for Disarmament and International Committee for Organisation and Arrangements; Canon John Collins; Michael Randle, Chairman of the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War; April Carter, Secretary of the Direction Action Committee Against Nuclear War; Alfred Reynolds, writer; A. S. Horsley of the CND; Ralph Schoenman of the CND; David Astor, Editor of the Observer; Catherine Rubinger of Our Generation Against Nuclear War; Sheila Oakes, Chairman of the CND and Dick Nettleton, General Secretary of the CND.
Also included in the file are typescript policy statements and pamphlets for the CND, newspaper clippings from the Sunday Times of articles about the H-Bomb and a signed typescript letter to Herbert Read from Graham Greene, dated 3 Jan 1961, expressing apologies for not joining in a demonstration, 1f.
This file also contains 2 manuscript notes by Herbert Read, n. d. The notes argue in favour of unilateral nuclear disarmament, stating ‘Nuclear weapons exist to destroy civilization’, 2ff.
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