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{{Infobox person
| name = Dorothy Detzer
| image = Dorothy Detzer cph.3b35051.jpg
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| caption = Dorothy Detzer, 1929
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{birth date|1893|12|11|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Ft. Wayne, Indiana
| death_date = {{death date and age|1981|1|7|1893|12|11|mf=y}}
| death_place = Monterey, California
| nationality = American
| alma_mater =
| other_names =
| occupation = Anti-war Activist, Journalist
| years_active =
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| notable_works =
| spouse = {{marriage|Ludwell Denny|1954|1970}} his death
}}
'''Dorothy Detzer''' (December 1, 1893 in [[Ft. Wayne, Indiana]] – January 7, 1981 in [[Monterey, California]])<ref name="Schuler">{{cite web |title=Prove it! |url=http://rsparlourtricks.blogspot.com/2005/12/prove-it.html |website=Ron Schuler's Parlour Tricks |accessdate=26 April 2019 |language=en}}</ref> was for twenty-two years the National Executive Secretary of the U.S. of the [[Women's International League for Peace and Freedom]] (1924–1946).

==Biography==
As a high school graduate, Detzer decided to forgo the traditional college course, opting instead to travel in the [[Far East]] and live for a time in the [[Philippines]]. Returning to the U.S., she went to live at [[Hull House]], attending the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy while working as an officer of the [[Juvenile Protective Association]].<ref name="Simkin">{{cite web |last1=Simkin |first1=John |title=Dorothy Detzer |url=https://spartacus-educational.com/USAdetzer.htm |website=Spartacus Educational |accessdate=26 April 2019}}</ref>
[[File:Dorothy Detzer backs NYE-Clark-Bone Bill on neutrality aid rejects Pittman's Washington, D.C., May 4. Dorothy Detzer, representing the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom was LCCN2016875586.jpg|thumb|left|Dorothy Detzer in Washington D.C. May 4, 1939, representing the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom]]
At the end of [[World War I]], she spent a year in [[Austria]] doing relief work for the [[American Friends Service Committee]] (AFSC). She later spent two years in [[Russia]] as an AFSC famine relief administrator in the [[Volga]] valley. Seeing the ravages of war and enduring the loss of her twin brother Don, who was gassed during World War I and died from a lingering illness, convinced Detzer that social work was not enough and that she wanted to work actively for [[pacifist]] causes. Upon her return to the U.S. in 1924, Detzer assumed the national secretaryship of [[WILPF]], U.S. Section.<ref name="Rainbolt">{{cite journal |last1=Rainbolt |first1=Rosemary |title=Women and War in the United States: The Case of Dorothy Detzer, National Secretary. W.I.L.P.F |journal=Peace & Change |volume=4 |issue=3 |pages=18–22 |language=en |doi=10.1111/j.1468-0130.1977.tb00353.x |date=1977}}</ref>

Detzer lobbied for the initiation of numerous legislative investigations, notably one launched by Senator [[Gerald P. Nye]] on the [[munitions]] industry (1933–1936). She was instrumental in focusing attention on the exploitation of [[List of sovereign states and dependent territories in Africa|African]] countries, particularly [[Ethiopia]] and [[Liberia]], by U.S. business concessions, and was awarded the [[Humane Order of African Redemption]] by the Liberian government in 1933 for these efforts. She also secured the appointment of a woman (Mary Woolley) to the U.S. delegation to the [[Geneva Disarmament Conference]] (1932), worked for recognition of Russia as a member of the family of nations and freedom for [[Cuba]] from U.S. intervention, and argued for [[Neutral country|neutrality]] as the U.S. approached World War II.<ref name="Simkin"/>

The events of two decades in Washington are chronicled in her book ''Appointment on the Hill'' (1948) which was written the year after she resigned her post with WILPF. She married [[Ludwell Denny]], a journalist, in 1954 and spent the next several years freelancing as a foreign correspondent. Shortly before her husband's death in 1970, the Dennys left [[Washington, D.C.]] for the [[West Coast of the United States|West Coast]], where Dorothy Detzer Denny remained in Monterey, California, until her death.<ref name="Simkin"/>

==See also==
* [[List of peace activists]]

==References==
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