Word: toyed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They came from the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. They came with a message from the League. The message which Mrs. White, Mrs. Villard and the others brought was this: War toys instil into a child's mind a militaristic spirit. Therefore the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom wishes to do away with war toys. It requests the toy manufacturers to aid it by ceasing to make the devices which prompt the young and innocent to devilish thoughts of war. If the toy manufacturers will cease, the Women's International...
...ladies were given an attentive hearing by the toy manufacturers, who replied...
...Boys began playing soldiers in the Stone Age, will continue to do so until the millennium, and we will continue to make and sell tin soldiers, toy guns, swords and war games...
Clarence Kinne, Chairman of the Toy Fair, went on to elaborate...
...Women's International League for Peace and Freedom has its headquarters at Geneva, Switzerland, and has branches in 26 countries. It is its intention to make its war-toy boycott worldwide. The press did not collect the opinions of the persons most affected by the issue-the children...