much of the glamor President Kennedy's Peace Corps may have held for some prospective applicants has been removed by Sargent Shriver, the head corpsman.

Mr. Eisenhower seized upon the incident of the postcard lost by a Peace Corps girl in Nigeria to attack the entire Corps as a `` juvenile experiment '' and to suggest sending a Corps member to the moon.

Congratulations to N.C. for successfully delving into the heart of the problems that face the Peace Corps.

I would hope that Sargent Shriver will encourage everyone entering the Peace Corps to read it.

Editor's note: Reprints of `` Confrontation '' will be included among the material to be distributed to members of the Peace Corps.

A Peace Corps official described the editorial as `` precisely the message we need to communicate to the men and women who will soon be Peace Corps volunteers ''.

The Peace Corps should not pay the expenses of a wife or family, unless the wife is also accepted for full-time Peace Corps work on the same project.

There should be no draft exemption because of Peace Corps service.

Peace Corps volunteers obviously should not be paid what they might earn in comparable activities in the United States.

Peace Corps volunteers should be given just enough to provide a minimum decent standard of living.

In what part of the government should the Peace Corps be established??

The idea of a Peace Corps has captured the imagination of a great many people.

The Peace Corps, therefore, offers an opportunity to add a new dimension to our approach to the world -- an opportunity for the American people to think anew and start afresh in their participation in world development.

For this, the Peace Corps should be administered by a small, new, alive agency operating as one component in our whole overseas operation.

Pending the reorganization of our foreign aid structure and program, the Peace Corps should be established as an agency in the Department of State.

When the aid operations are reorganized the Peace Corps should remain a semi-autonomous, functional unit.

Meanwhile, the Peace Corps could be physically located in ICA's facilities and depend on the State Department and ICA for administrative support and, when needed, program assistance.

How and when should the Peace Corps be launched??

In any case, our Peace Corps personnel should be offered as technician helpers in development projects of the U.N. and other international agencies.

Congress should then be asked to give the Peace Corps a firm legislative foundation for the next fiscal year.

Specifically, Congress should consider authorizing the Peace Corps to receive contributions from American businesses, unions, civic organizations and the public at large.

Steps should also be taken to link the Food for Peace Program with the Peace Corps, so that foreign currencies accumulated by the sale of U.S. surplus food under P.L. 480 can be put to use to pay some of the host country expenses of Peace Corps personnel.

The extent to which participating bodies such as U. S. voluntary agencies, universities, international organizations, and the host country or institutions in the host country can and should share the cost of the Peace Corps programs must be fully explored.

The Peace Conference adopted the principle that these territories should be administered by different governments on behalf of the League – a system of national responsibility subject to international supervision.

The 1648 Peace of Westphalia, which ended the Thirty Years ' War, established the rule that prisoners of war should be released without ransom at the end of hostilities and that they should be allowed to return to their homelands.

" Still, though all Canadian nationals were as equally British subjects as their British counterparts prior to the implementation of the Canadian Citizenship Act in 1947, the idea of Canadian-born persons being appointed governor general was raised as early as 1919, when, at the Paris Peace Conference, Canadian prime minister Robert Borden consulted with Prime Minister of South Africa Louis Botha and the two agreed that the viceregal appointees should be long-term residents of their respective dominions.

The name Land for Peace is derived from the wording of the resolution's first operative paragraph which affirms that peace should include the application of two principles ; Withdrawal of Israeli forces ( Giving Up Land ), and Termination of all claims or states of belligerency ( Making Peace ).

Prior to World War II she remarked in an interview with The New York Times Magazine that Adolf Hitler should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

In scope and power it can only be compared to Tolstoy's War And Peace.

In this way the Peace Corps can be launched with its own identity and spirit and yet receive the necessary assistance from those now responsible for United States foreign policy and our overseas operations.

The Peace Corps can either begin in very low gear, with only preparatory work undertaken between now and when Congress finally appropriates special funds for it -- or it can be launched now and in earnest by executive action, with sufficient funds and made available from existing Mutual Security appropriations to permit a number of substantial projects to start this summer.

How will the Peace Corps be received abroad??

It is important, however, that the Peace Corps be advanced not as an arm of the Cold War but as a contribution to the world community.

If launched in a careful but determined way within the next few weeks, the Peace Corps could have several hundred persons in training this summer for placement next fall.

In 2001, computer giant IBM launched an advertising campaign in Chicago and San Francisco which involved people spray painting on sidewalks a peace symbol, a heart, and a penguin ( Linux mascot ), to represent " Peace, Love, and Linux.

* 1962 –, the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, is launched as a showcase for Dwight D. Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace initiative.

The main plank of Saudi policy on the issue remains the Arab Peace Initiative, first launched by King Abdullah, as the then Crown Prince, in 2002: Arab governments would offer " normal relations and the security of Israel in exchange for a full Israeli withdrawal from all occupied Arab lands, recognition of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, and the return of Palestinian refugees.

As a result of extensive international consultations, which have underlined the importance of according a high priority to activities in Africa, the University for Peace ( UPEACE ) officially launched its Africa Programme in January 2002.

Global Peace Women was launched in Malaysia, a chapter of Unification Church-affiliated Global Peace Festival Foundation, with the wife of the Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia as its chair.

The Earth Charter document was launched in the Peace Palace in The Hague in June 2000.

Jelly babies were launched by Bassett's in 1918 in Sheffield as " Peace Babies " to mark the end of World War I.

In 2007, the English Grand Lodge for the Americas launched a new e-zine, Peace Consciousness. org.

In November 2004, after discussions with sister Peace Laureates Dr. Shirin Ebadi of Iran and the late Professor Wangari Maathai of Kenya, Williams took the lead in establishing the Nobel Women ’ s Initiative launched in January 2006 ; she since has served as its Chair.

The Raam was launched on October 26, 2001 and is the concept of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the Transcendental Meditation technique and the Global Country of World Peace.

The " Free JP " campaign was launched in the UK by Surur Hoda and chaired by Nobel Peace Prize winner Noel-Baker for the release of Jayaprakash Narayan.

The next year Peace Action launched Peace Voter ' 96, the organization's largest nationally-coordinated campaign since the mid-1980s.

Peace One Day launched its first educational resource, the Peace One Day Citizenship Resource Pack in May 2006.

In 2010, with the help of Skype, Peace One Day launched the resource in the six official languages of the UN ( Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish ), all also available free online.

In 2010, Peace One Day launched a new division, POD Productions.

A global movement for Ministries of Peace and Departments of Peace has also been launched by the Global Alliance for Ministries and Departments of Peace.