Letters to Peace Lovers

The Peace Pledge Union (PPU) was an organization that campaigned for pacifism and against military conscription. World War II, the PPU attempted to get people to “boycott” the war. They campaigned publically holding open-air meetings and selling their personal newspaper called “The Peace News”. The PPU gained around 60,000 supporters during the war whom refused to join the army. Their campaign was mostly aimed at women between twenty to thirty years old. During 1939 Vera Brittain, one of the PPU’s most famous members, began writing “Letters to Peace Lovers”. In this newsletter she wrote about her personal views on the war, however she was an outspoken pacifist. Many people spoke out against her because she criticized certain acts of the government, such as bombing civilian areas in Germany. Her newsletter campaigned against military conscription, and for the building of air raid protection in the form of bunkers. Vera also tried to make Europe aware that if Hitler were ever brought down that Germany would be, in a sense, in Civil War. She tried to encourage the other European powers and democracies in the world to take action to try to prevent or negate this inevitable event.