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Collection of 63 publications, including 25 numbered pamphlets (ca 12-32pp each) and 38 leaflets (1-16pp each). Generally ca 20cm x 14cm, with slight variations; printed paper wrappers. Variable light to moderate wear, but complete, Good or better overall. A comprehensive collection of materials published under the auspices of the Union of Democratic Control, a British political advocacy group which sought, during the years of the First World War and its aftermath, to increase the role of democratic processes and parliamentary control in British government, especially with regards to its foreign relations. During the Great War, the UDC stopped short of outright pacifism; after 1918, the organization plotted a more intentionally anti-war course, ultimately publishing its pacifist manifesto, Arthur Ponsonby's Now is the Time, in 1925 (not included here). The Union's members included many of the most prominent liberal and labour politicians and intellectuals of the era, including Arthur Ponsonby, Bertrand Russell, Norman Angell, Ramsay MacDonald, and others. Given the prominence of its members, the Union exerted considerable influence on British foreign policy in the interwar period, and though its influence waned steeply after the Thirties, the Union survived well into the post-WW2 era, finally dissolving in 1966. While UDC publications are not generically rare, this is the largest collection of their publications we have encountered at one time, offering a representative view of the group's political advocacy over its most active period. A catalog of the collection follows (all published London: Union of Democratic Control unless otherwise specified):. Pamphlet Series: 1. The Morrow of the War. 16pp. n.d. (1914) 2. Angell, Norman. Shall This War End German Militarism? 24pp. n.d. (1914) 3. Russell, Bertrand. War: the Offspring of Fear. n.d. 16pp. (1914) 4. Brailsford, H.N. The Origins of the Great War. 24pp. (1914) 5. Ponsonby, Arthur. Parliament and Foreign Policy. 12pp. n.d. (1914?) 5a. Ponsonby, Arthur. The Control of Foreign Policy. 16pp. (1918) 6. Asquith, H.H.; Winston Churchill, Edward Grey, et al. The National Policy As Set Forth By. 16pp. (1914) 7. The International Industry of War. n.d. 16pp. 8. MacDonald, J. Ramsay. War and the Workers: a Plea for Democratic Control. 20pp. n.d. (1915?) 9. Why we should state Terms of Settlement. 8pp. n.d. 10. Rolland, Romain et al. Towards an International Understanding. Being the Opinions of some Allied & Neutral Writers. 28pp. n.d. 11. Swanwick, H.M. Women and War. 16pp. (NOTE: Covers detached, but present). 1915. 12. By "A Pole." The Polish Problem. 20pp. n.d. 13. Angell, Norman. The Prussian in our Midst. 28pp. (1915) 14a. The Balance of Power. 2nd Edition. 24pp. 1915. 15a. Hobson, J.A. A League of Nations. 20pp. 1915. 16a. Hobson, J.A. Labour and the Costs of War. 16pp. 1916. 18a. Brailsford, H.N. Turkey and the Roads of the East. 24pp. 1916. 19a. Dickinson, G. Lowes. Economic War After the War. 20pp. 1916. 20a. Angell, Norman. America and the Cause of the Allies. 16pp. 1916. 21a. "By a Soldier." The War to End War: a Plea to Soldiers by a Soldier. 20pp. 1917. 22a. Morel, E.D. The African Problem and the Peace Settlement. 32pp. 1917. 23a. Gooch, G.P. The Races of Austria-Hungary. 24pp. 1917. 27a. Peace Overtures and Their Rejection December 1916 - March, 1918. 21pp. 1918. 42a. Demartial, M. Georges. Patriotism, Truth and War Guilt. 30pp. 1921. Leaflet Series: (Unnumbered). Fundraising Prospectus. Broadside (1pp). N.d. (ca 1914-15). Signed in print by E.A. Morel. No. 3: Why Have the People take no Interest in Foreign Affairs. Broadside (1pp). n.d. (1914?) No. 4: What is the Balance of Power? Broadside (1pp). n.d. (1914?) No. 5: "Crushing Germany". 4pp. n.d. (1914?) No. 6: What is a Treaty? Broadside (1pp). n.d. (1914?) No. 8: Our Soldiers and the Union of Democratic Control. Letters from Officers and Men. 4pp. (1915). No. 9: Do Nations Want to Fight? Broadsheet (2pp). n.d. (1915?).
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