Does US Want a Stronger UN: Speech Delivered at North Pennsylvania League of Women Voters
written by Dorothy Hewitt Hutchinson, 1905-1984, in Dorothy Hutchinson Papers, 1942-1980, of Swarthmore College Peace Collection (Series V, Box 8, Folder "Notes: U.N. Speeches by D.H. (1962-1964)") (Swarthmore, PA) (1960) , 3 page(s)
Details
- Abstract / Summary
- Rough notes for a speech, October 1963. Quotes Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy. Major misconceptions of the UN at its founding: it continued the power of the victor powers of World War II, the ideal was not the primary motivation and it couldn’t know the threat of nuclear war. Mentions forced disarmament, US relationship with UN, prevention of the spread of nuclear weapons, the problems of colonialism, etc. List of “D’s”: Disarmament, Development, Decolonization.
- Field of Interest
- Women and Social Movements
- Author
- Dorothy Hewitt Hutchinson, 1905-1984
- Collection
- Women and Social Movements, International
- Content Type
- Speech/Address
- Duration
- 0 sec
- Format
- Text
- Page Count
- 3
- Subject
- Women and Social Movements, History, Women and Politics, Transnational Women’s Movement, Mujer y Política, Mulher e Política, Movimiento de Mujeres Transnacional, Movimento Feminista Transnacional, United States of America, USA, US of A, America, Estados Unidos, United States, Peace, International Governance, and International Law, Political and Human Rights, United Nations, Suffrage
- Topic
- United Nations, Suffrage
- Keywords and Translated Subjects
- Mujer y Política, Mulher e Política, Movimiento de Mujeres Transnacional, Movimento Feminista Transnacional, United States of America, USA, US of A, America, Estados Unidos
