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Edwin Ginn's Vision of World Peace

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

Arthur N. Holcombe
Arthur N. Holcombe
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Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Emeritus, at Harvard University, has been a trustee of the Edwin Ginn estate since 1917. He first became acquainted with Edwin Ginn in 1899 when, as a junior in the Winchester, Massachusetts, High School, he was employed to read to him during the evenings from the Boston Transcript and from books and manuscripts of interest to Mr. Ginn. Later, when studying as an undergraduate at Harvard College, the author continued to serve occasionally as Mr. Ginn's reader. Subsequently he became one of Mr. Ginn's consultants in the development of plans for an international school of peace and for the World Peace Foundation. In his will, Mr. Ginn named Mr. Holcombe to serve as executor and trustee of the publisher's estate in the event that the original executors should be unable to serve.
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Edwin Ginn, successful publisher of educational books, philanthropist, and founder of the World Peace Foundation, gave much thought to the problem of world peace and believed that he knew the answer. He was convinced that world peace, as he understood it, was highly desirable, was attainable, and was likely to be achieved in the not too distant future. To this achievement he devoted a third of the wealth accumulated during a lifetime of demonstrated business capacity and acumen. So confident was he of the correctness of his analysis of the peace problem that he stipulated in his will the use to be made, after world peace was attained, of the fund which he provided for the support of his World Peace Foundation. His trustees were charged with the duty of recognizing the attainment of peace and then transferring the fund to the support of his other favorite philanthropy, the Charlesbank Homes, which he expected to flourish in a peaceful world.

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International Organization , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , Winter 1965 , pp. 1 - 19
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1965

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References

1 Ginn, Edwin, “An International School of Peace,” The Nation, 09 23, 1909.Google Scholar

2 Ibid.

3 Ibid.

4 Edwin, Ginn, World Peace Foundation (World Peace Foundation Pamphlet Series No. 1, Part 3) (Boston: World Peace Foundation, 1911), p. 9.Google Scholar

5 Ibid., p. 8.

6 General Assembly Resolution 1884 (XVIII), October 17, 1963.

7 The New York Times Magazine, August 2, 1964.

8 Ibid.