ABSTRACT
In London the Anglican Pacifist Fellowship had taken charge of the shelters in St Martin’s Crypt, and a Hungerford Club had been formed on Donald Soper’s initiative for men and women unsuited to ordinary shelters. When the Chinese Ambassador in London, Quo Tai Chi, was asked in 1939 to comment on the outbreak of war, he said: ‘The sky is black with chickens coming home to roost’. The delegates who met in the Lunteren woods had decided to move the I.F.o.R. office to London; ‘it seemed best to have our headquarters in the country which appears to have the greatest resources in Christian pacifism that might be mobilized’. In 1959 the I.F.o.R. acquired a new international headquarters in Finchley, North London. Generous friends made it possible to buy a large house known as ‘The Grange’ which provided the Fellowship with a much-needed Conference Centre.
