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- 1917-1956. (Creation)
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Sub-fonds
Extent and medium
91 large boxes and 15 small boxes.
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Administrative history
The New Commonwealth was a voluntary society established to promote international peace through an Equity Tribunal and International Police Force. Founded, and to a great extend funded, by Lord Davies of Llandinam the organisation had it's headquarters at Thorney house in London and published a journal and various books and pamphlets promoting its ideas. Membership was international. The New Commonwealth was wound up in 1954.
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Records relating to various peace movements. They include correspondence and papers, 1920-34, relating to the establishment of the League of Nations Union (Wales) and its development up to 1934; various memoranda and policy documents, minutes of various committees and sub-committees, papers concerning the organisation of conferences and meetings, monthly reports, and lists of local branches, their officials and their activities; correspondence, printed material (including some press cuttings), 1935-44, relating to the work and activities of the League of Nations Union (Wales), especially its council; correspondence and papers, 1917-49, concerning the New Europe Society, League of Free Nations, and the League of Nations Union; various papers, 1937-54, relating to the League of Nations Union and similar bodies and organisations, including the agenda and minutes of its Welsh National Council, and various committees and sub-committees, memoranda and reports, circulars and circular correspondence, and newsletters; documents, 1922-39, concerning the background to the establishment of the New Commonwealth, its administrative records, 1932-56, related papers and memoranda, 1929-56, extensive files of correspondence concerning its administration, activities, especially its expansion abroad, 1932-54; documents relating to early atomic energy initiatives, 1945-48; correspondence and papers, 1942-51, relating to the various campaigns to secure federalist solutions and a system of world government, New Commonwealth publications.
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Arranged as follows: League of Nations Union (Wales); early peace movements, including the New Europe Society, the League of Free Nations, and the League of Nations Union); League of Nations Union; peace movements, 1937-54; New Commonwealth Society; atomic energy; federalism and world government, New Commonwealth publications.
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Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to abide by the conditions set out in information provided when applying for their Readers' Tickets, whereby the reader shall become responsible for compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998 in relation to any processing by them of personal data obtained from modern records held at the Library. = Disgwylir i ddarllenwyr sydd am ddefnyddio papurau modern yn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru gydymffurfio รข Deddf Gwarchod Data 1998 yng nghyd-destun unrhyw brosesu ganddynt o ddata personol a gasglwyd o gofnodion modern sydd ar gadw yn y Llyfrgell. Nodir y manylion yn yr wybodaeth a roddir wrth wneud cais am Docyn Darllen.
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Preferred citation: B.