March 1950: The
World Peace CouncilThe World Peace Council is an anti-imperialist, democratic, independent and non-aligned international movement of mass action...
releases the
Stockholm Appeal calling for an absolute ban on nuclear weapons. The appeal was initiated by the French Communist physicist
Frédéric Joliot-CurieJean Frédéric Joliot-Curie was a French physicist and Nobel laureate.-Early years:Born in Paris, France, he was a graduate of the School of Chemistry and Physics of the city of Paris. In 1925 he became an assistant to Marie Curie, at the Radium Institute...
, gathered petitions allegedly signed by 273,470,566 persons (including the entire adult population of the U.S.S.R.)
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March 1950: The
World Peace CouncilThe World Peace Council is an anti-imperialist, democratic, independent and non-aligned international movement of mass action...
releases the
Stockholm Appeal calling for an absolute ban on nuclear weapons. The appeal was initiated by the French Communist physicist
Frédéric Joliot-CurieJean Frédéric Joliot-Curie was a French physicist and Nobel laureate.-Early years:Born in Paris, France, he was a graduate of the School of Chemistry and Physics of the city of Paris. In 1925 he became an assistant to Marie Curie, at the Radium Institute...
, gathered petitions allegedly signed by 273,470,566 persons (including the entire adult population of the U.S.S.R.)
Notable Signators
- Jorge Amado
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- Louis Aragon
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- Pierre Benoit
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- Marcel Carné
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- Marc Chagall
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- Maurice Chevalier
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- Jacques Chirac
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- Duke Ellington
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- James Gareth Endicott
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- Ilya Ehrenburg
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- Lionel Jospin
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- Robert Lamoureux
- Thomas Mann
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- Yves Montand
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- Pablo Neruda
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- Noël-Noël
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- Gérard Philipe
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- Pablo Picasso
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- Jacques Prévert
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- Pierre Renoir
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- Armand Salacrou
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- Dmitri Shostakovich
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- Simone Signoret
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- Michel Simon
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- Henri Wallon
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