CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS, PACIFISM, APPEASEMENT AND MUTINY AFTER THE GREAT WAR

Rare collection of pamphlets, newspapers and ephemera relating to Conscription, Peace Activism and Anti-Fascism after the First World War.

40 pamphlets and ephemera, various dates 1935-1946, various sizes (most approx. 205 x 138 mm., some larger and smaller). (A few margins lightly creased, a few lightly spotted with some rusting of staples.)

The collection includes: [ATTWOOD, Arthur (1913-2008)] – ATTWOOD AND OTHER SERVICE PERSONNEL DEFENCE COMMITTEE. An Appeal for Funds. London: [n.d. but 1946]. 2 leaflets. Attwood, a lifelong trade unionist, was imprisoned in 1946 as a leader of the so-called RAF mutiny, a strike action involving up to 50,000 men in 60 British air bases across India and South Asia protesting at conditions and slow demobilisation following the end of the Second World War.

[Sold with:] PAGE, Roger. Citizens in Jail. London: Peace News Ltd, [n.d., but 1940s]; SPENCER, Sidney. Thoughts from a prison cell. Liverpool: Northern Publishing Co for the author, [n.d. but c. 1943]; – Can we make peace with dictators? London: Peace Pledge Union, 1939; The C.O. and the Tribunal. A Critical Guide for Objectors to the National Service (Armed Forces) Act. London: Joint Advisory Bureau, [n.d. but c. 1940]; The Socialist and Conscription. London: The Socialist Party of Great Britain, [1939]; [C.S.M. FRANKLIN] – The Suppressed Speech! … with a foreword by Lt. Col. Athur Osburn. [N.p., n.d., but probably London c. 1935]; WELLOCK, Wilfred. The Tattoo Exposed! Leeds: The Leeds Anti-Tattoo Committee, [n.d. but c. 1935]; Conversation Peace … a series of leaflets in dialogue form dealing with objections to pacifism. London: The Peace Pledge Union [n.d., but after 1953]. 6 leaflets printed on coloured paper contained within printed paper slipcase; THE JOHN MASON DEFENCE COMMITTEE. A brief outline of the life of John Mason. Mexborough, Yorks: [n.d. but 1940]; BOMBING RESTRICTION COMMITTEE. Stop bombing civilians! London: 1943; CENTRAL BOARD FOR CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS. The Release of C.O.s. London: April 1946; – Trials of Conscience. London: 1945; MILLER, Alexander. Pacificism, revolution and community. Second impression. London: [n.d., but c. 1940]. INDEPENDENT LABOUR PARTY. Guide to Conscription. London: [n.d. but c. 1940]. GULLAN, Roger and Buckley ROBERTS. Where’s that bomb? London: 1937; and 24 others similar.

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