Image: Photo 7 Council 1938, WRI

Description: The photograph shows members of the International Council of War Resisters' International (WRI), meeting at Broederschapshuis (The Brotherhood House), Bilthoven in the Netherlands in July 1938, during the Spanish Civil War. The venue was a pacifist centre founded by Kees and Betty Boeke. The Chair of the WRI Council was George Lansbury MP (seated, centre) who was Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition between 1932 and 1935. Identifying people in this photograph is work in progress. Names marked * are probably correct, but are as yet unconfirmed. Back row, left to right: Hagbard Jonassen (WRI Denmark), Harold Bing (WRI UK), seventh from left: Dr. Stuart D. Morris* (Peace Pledge Union), twelfth: Herbert Runham Brown (Gen. Sec., WRI), then Hem Day (Belgium) and (far right): Lord Ponsonby. Standing, eighth from left, with arms folded, Bart de Ligt.* Front row, left to right: José Brocca (WRI Spain), Ruth Fry (Treasurer, WRI), George Lansbury, Grace Beaton (Asst. Sec., WRI). Standing, immediately behind Professor Brocca and Ruth Fry: Muriel Lester. Standing, immediately behind George Lansbury: Přemysl Pitter and Olga Fierz.
Title: Photo 7 Council 1938, WRI
Credit: (Original text: WRI archives (previously published in the history of WRI entitled War is a Crime Against Humanity))
Author: Devi Prasad
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