Late in this decade, with another world war on the horizon, she became a pacifist. In 1937 she joined the Peace Pledge Union
(founded on 22 May 1936 by Canon Dick Sheppard
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July 1935
The Sheppard Peace Movement
was founded following publication of a letter by Dick Sheppard
on 16 October 1934.
Ceadel, Martin. Pacifism in Britain, 1914-1945 : The Defining of a Faith. Clarendon, 1980, http://U of A HSS.
Appendix I
Thomson, David, and Geoffrey Warner. England in the Twentieth Century, 1914-1979. 2nd ed., Penguin Books, 1981.
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Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995.
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22 May 1936: The Peace Pledge Union was founded by Canon...