Freda Kirchwey

Overview

Freda Kirchwey born Lake Placid, NY September 26, 1893 (d. 1976). Editor and publisher of The Nation 1937-1955; WILPF representative at UN 1955-9 supporting Universal Declaration of Human Rights and disarmament; pacifist in World War I; opposed nuclear weapons; critic of strategic bombing, as in Korean War.

Quotations

"A force which subordinates everything to the job of killing the enemy becomes an enemy itself." (The Nation, 1952; photo African American Registry)