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Bernard Shaw's name was on the list of celebrities whom Bertha von Suttner, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and pacifist, planned to invite to an international peace congress that was to take place in Vienna in 1914. On 21 September 1913, Suttner wrote a letter to Alfred Hermann Fried, another protagonist of the peace movement, outlining her idea for the congress: ``Exceptional people from abroad should be invited, celebrities who are not members of any [peace] society, but who are world-famous: Anatole France, Bernard Shaw--Gerhart Hauptmann and others like them. I would write letters to convince them. They would have to speak in favour of pacifism--nothing literary.''1 The peace congress did not take place. Instead, World War I broke out, spelling the failure of efforts by activists all over Europe to propagate peace and prevent the impending war. What would Bertha von Suttner have heard from Shaw at this conference? Why did she invite him? He was certainly not a pacifist, despite his assertion on 1 January 1914: ``I want international peace.''2 He rejected disarmament and criticized pacifists for their nai ´ and their ¨vete shortsighted perspective on international politics. Once the war had begun, he argued that
SHAW The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies – Penn State University Press
Published: Dec 24, 2008
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