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Late in 1935, Cecil, Sir Norman Angell, Philip Noel-Baker, Pierre Cot
the French minister for air, Herriot and the French trade union leader
Léon Jouhoux discussed the prospect of establishing a ‘movement to
co-ordinate all the forces of peace in the world.’^1 Following a meet-
ing held at the Cecil residence in early 1936, the International Peace
Campaign (or, as its French branch was called, the Rassemblement
Universal pour la Paix [RUP]), was formally launched, the joint
presidents of the campaign being Cecil and Cot.^2 The general purpose
of the International Peace Campaign (IPC) was to reinvigorate support
for the LON amongst governments and the public. More specifically, it

CHAPTER 2

Paris, 1937: Colonial Questions and Peace

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(^1) For the formation of the Rassemblement Universal de la Paix [hereafter RUP], see RUP
to the director of the IICI, 27 December 1935, Rapprochement international: Généralités,
1927–1944, AG 1 IICI-B-V-4, UA; Rachel Mazuy, ‘Le Rassemblement Universal pour la
Paix (1931–1939): une organization de masse?’ Materiaux pour L’Histoire de Notre Temps,
no. 30 (1993): 40–4, 40. See also Donald S. Birn, ‘The League of Nations and Collective
Security,’ Journal of Contemporary History 9, no. 4 (1974): 131–59, 148n. Certain French
figures had been discussing the possibility of such a movement as the RUP since 1934.
(^2) Mazuy, ‘Le Rassemblement Universal pour la Paix,’ 40, and Birn, ‘The League of
Nations and Collective Security,’ 148n. Mazuy points out that the Parisian centre of the
RUP created at the end of 1935. For the role of Robert Cecil and Pierre Cot, see RUP to
the director of the Institut International de la Coopération Intellectuelle [hereafter IICI],
4 August 1937, AG 1 IICI-B-V-4, UA.