ABSTRACT
A direct product of the "never again" mood so pervasive in Great Britain during the 1920s and 1930s, the Peace Pledge Union (PPU) was founded by an Anglican priest, Canon 'Dick' Sheppard, in October 1934. The organization through which women were able to organize and to work for peace in the late 1930s was the PPU, which celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of its founding in October 1984. The Sheppard Peace Movement, as it was initially named, became the PPU in May 1936. The response was apparently very encouraging and by the end of November the PPU established a Women's Committee under the direction of Mary Gamble, and the Women's Peace Campaign came into being. The PPU's main campaign for a negotiated peace persisted, however, until the autumn of 1944, when it, too, had to be abandoned.
