Fellowship of Reconciliation
Fellowship of Reconciliation(FOR), a religious‐pacifist organization, was founded in England (1914). An American branch was established in November 1915 in Garden City, Long Island, by men and women who belonged to mainstream faiths as well as to pacifist faiths like the Quakers.
In World War I, FOR led by Gilbert A. Beaver, Edward W. Evans, and Charles J. Rhoades, assisted conscientious objectors (COs). Afterward, it became the intellectual arm of the religious peace movement. Its popular journal, The World Tomorrow (renamed Fellowship, 1935), embodied radical Christian‐motivated ideas. Membership averaged 6,000.
During the 1920s and 1930s, FOR helped establish the Committee on Militarism in Education to oppose compulsory ROTC; it supported the Outlawry of War campaign culminating in the Kellogg‐Briand Pact (1928), and cosponsored a peace mission to Nicaragua.
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