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Organizing South for Peace League plans spread
John K. Dean opens temporary HQ in Charleston to build south state chapters for the League to Enforce Peace. Honorary vice presidents and state officials join a drive to establish an international law framework and postwar peace council, with enforcement via economic and military power against violators. The piece also notes strong southern participation and a pledge to form a global peace system after the war.
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John K. Dean
League
Charleston
S. C
Dean
Philip H. Gadaden
Charleston Consolidated Railway and Lighting Company
Edwin A. Alderman
J. Stewart Bryan
Henry St. George Tucker
Wm. Hodges Mann
Virginia
James. Cardinal Gibbons
Bernard N. Baker
Maryland
Samuel W. McCall
Mississippi
J. R. Kenly
North Carolina
Edgar Odell Lovett
Texas
Clifton R. Breckenridge
Arkansas
Peter W. Melrdrin
Georgia
James B. McCreary
Kentucky
Charles H. Brough
Philip H. Gadsden
South Carolina
Leroy Percy
Bolton Smith
Tennessee
State Supreme Court
Court of Appeals of
Alabama
League of Nations