War on Want 50 years old today
Howard Lake | 7 February 2001 | News
International anti-poverty charity War on Want today celebrates the 50th anniversary of the letter which sparked the foundation of the charity. Publisher Victor Gollancz wrote to the Manchester Guardian calling for a negotiated settlement to end the Korean war and for an international fund to be set up ‘to turn swords into ploughshares’.
International anti-poverty charity War on Want today celebrates the 50th anniversary of the letter which sparked the foundation of the charity. Publisher Victor Gollancz wrote to the Manchester Guardian calling for a negotiated settlement to end the Korean war and for an international fund to be set up ‘to turn swords into ploughshares’.
It is remarkable what a letter to the editor can achieve. Amnesty International is another charitable organisation that grew out of a letter in a newspaper. In Amnesty’s case it was a letter by lawyer Peter Benenson to The Observer.
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