1899 Peace Conference
Penelope Cummins reflects on an historic call for ‘a lasting peace and a truce in armaments’
On 6 December last year, Bruce Kent wrote in a letter to the Friend that he had learned of three packed public meetings in Britain, supporting the proposal in 1898 by czar Nicholas II for a Peace Conference to consider the possibility of halting, or at any rate slowing down, the arms race which eventually culminated in the first world war. He asked whether any Quakers had responded to the vision of Nicholas II?
Did they ever respond! The Quaker response was a pattern and example to those of us today who feel that the Religious Society of Friends may be disengaged from public life or unable to influence national or international policy.
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