# War on Want 50 years old today

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2001/02/07/war-want-50-years-old-today/
- Published: 2001-02-07T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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.

Read A radical charity turns 50 at SocietyGuardian.

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