Sydney D. Bailey

{{Infobox person

| name = Sydney D. Bailey

| image = Sydney Bailey.png

| birth_name = Sydney Dawson Bailey

| birth_date = 1 or 2 September 1916

| birth_place = Hull, England

| death_date = {{death date and age|1995|11|26|1916|9|1|df=y}}

| death_place = London, England

| known_for = Pacifism
Studying the United Nations

| spouse = {{marriage|Jennie Friedrich|26 April 1945}}

| children = two

}}

Sydney Dawson Bailey (1 or 2 September 1916{{Spaced en dash}}26 November 1995) was an English author, pacifist, and expert on international affairs. He worked at and was head of the Quaker United Nations Office during the 1950s. He was a conscientious objector during World War II, and spent several years in the Friends' Ambulance Unit. Bailey wrote 17 books and worked at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from 1958 to 1960 as a visiting scholar. He then left the endowment and was involved in various negotiations and advisory councils before his death in 1995.{{Cite news|last=Saxon|first=Wolfgang|date=9 December 1995|title=Sydney D. Bailey, 79, a Quaker Long Active in Global Affairs|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/09/us/sydney-d-bailey-79-a-quaker-long-active-in-global-affairs.html|access-date=1 May 2020|issn=0362-4331}}

Biography

Sydney Dawson Bailey was born on 1 or 2 September 1916, in Hull, England, to Frank Burgess Bailey, a grain broker, and Elsie (May) Bailey, a teacher. He attended Worksop College,{{Cite book|last1=Evory|first1=Ann|url=https://archive.org/details/contemporaryauth00jame_1|title=Contemporary authors, new revision series. a bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, and other fields|last2=Metzger|first2=Linda|last3=Straub|first3=Deborah A.|last4=May|first4=Hal|last5=Lesniak|first5=James G.|date=1990|publisher=Gale Cengage|via=Internet Archive|isbn=978-0-8103-1985-1|pages=23}}{{Cite news|date=December 2, 1995|title=Sydney Bailey|page=21|work=The Daily Telegraph}} and left at the age of 15{{Cite news|last=Oestreicher|first=Paul|date=30 November 1995|title=Obituary: Sydney Bailey|page=16|work=The Independent|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-sydney-bailey-1584332.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220526/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-sydney-bailey-1584332.html |archive-date=26 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live}} or 16 and worked in various careers, including: at a bank, in a factory, and in insurance. When World War II began, Bailey was a conscientious objector, as he had become a dedicated pacifist. He served for six years in the Friends' Ambulance Unit, stationed in Burma and China from 1940 to 1946. While with the unit, he was infected with schistosomiasis, which Bailey would deal with for much of his life. It partially paralyzed him, and he would later use a wheelchair. He formally became a member of the Quakers while in China,{{Cite news|last=Duckworth|first=Brian|date=4 December 1995|title=Fighting war with peace Obituary: Sydney Bailey|page=11|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/62986595/the-guardian/|via=Newspapers.com}} and, upon returning to England, he married Jennie Elena Brenda Friedrich (1923-2021) on 26 April 1945. They had a son and daughter. For several years after the war ended, Bailey worked as a bank teller and then briefly in insurance.{{Cite news|date=30 November 1995|title=Sydney Bailey; Obituary|page=1|work=The Times}} He also helped people left homeless by The Blitz. Bailey also edited the National News-Letter of Stephen King-Hall. From 1948 to 1954, he served as secretary of the Hansard Society.

Bailey taught himself political science and began to research parliamentary systems around the British Commonwealth, though his primary focus soon shifted to be on the United Nations Security Council and disarmament. From 1954 to 1958, Bailey and his wife worked at the Quaker United Nations Office, and he was Quaker representative to the United Nations. After leaving the Quaker office, Bailey worked at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from 1958 to 1960 as a visiting scholar. As a peace negotiator, Bailey worked in various regions, including Ireland, South Africa and the Middle East. He traveled to the Soviet Union several times and worked at the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust. Bailey was also involved in the establishment of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and several other similar groups, including a lectureship at King's College London on ethical problems with war and the Council on Christian Approaches to Defence and Disarmament (CCAD). He worked to develop United Nations Security Council Resolution 242 in 1967. He also worked in internal affairs for the British Council of Churches and was a member of the Anglican Working Party.{{Cite book|last=Harries|first=Richard|chapter=Sydney D. Bailey (1916–1995): In Memoriam|date=1998|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qd6-DAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Sydney+Bailey+Memorial+Lecture%22&pg=PA5|title=Some Corner of a Foreign Field: Intervention and World Order|pages=3–6|editor-last=Williamson|editor-first=Roger|place=London|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK|language=en|doi=10.1007/978-1-349-14443-3_1|isbn=978-1-349-14443-3}}

From 1952 to 1976 Bailey organized several 10-day conferences, where diplomats from nations around the world met, notably including groups that "were not on talking terms" like the Arabs and Israelis. Bailey delivered the 1993 Swarthmore Lecture, titled "Peace is a Process". For his pacifist advocacy, Bailey was given the Rufus Jones Award by the World Academy of Art and Science. In 1985, he was granted a Doctor of Civil Law Lambeth degree by Lord Runcie, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Michael Quinlan considered Bailey "one of the most significant of" the moral critics of nuclear deterrence, because he understood "strategic realities of the Cold War".{{Cite journal|last=Wicker|first=Brian|date=2012|title=On Nuclear Deterrence: Some Ramifications|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43251662|journal=New Blackfriars|volume=93|issue=1047|pages=599|issn=0028-4289|doi=10.1111/j.1741-2005.2011.01482.x|jstor=43251662|url-access=subscription}} Bailey died on 26 November 1995, at his home in North London.

After his death, the CCAD established a fund in his memory, part of which went towards establishing the "Sydney Bailey Memorial Lecture", which was first given on 10 March 1997, by Prince Hassan bin Talal.

Partial bibliography

{{Cite book|title=The procedure of the UN Security Council|date=1975|publisher=Clarendon Press|isbn=0-19-827199-9|location=Oxford [England]|oclc=2866662}}
{{Cite book|title=British parliamentary democracy|date=1971|publisher=Greenwood Press|isbn=0-313-20195-1|location=Westport, Connecticut|oclc=3558976}}
{{Cite book|title=The General Assembly of the United Nations; a study of procedure and practice|date=1964|publisher=Praeger|location=New York|language=en|oclc=505854}}
{{Cite book|title=The Secretariat of the United Nations|date=1962|publisher=Carnegie Endowment for International Peace|location=New York|language=en|oclc=1673765}}
{{Cite book|title=The United Nations: a short political guide|date=1963|publisher=Praeger|location=New York|language=en|oclc=710945}}
{{Cite book|title=Voting in the Security Council|date=1969|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0-253-36275-9|location=Bloomington|language=en|oclc=61964}}
{{Cite book|title=Prohibitions and restraints in war|date=1972|publisher=Oxford University Press for the Royal Institute of International Affairs|isbn=978-0-19-215196-4|location=London|language=en|oclc=415892}}
{{Cite book|title=Four Arab-Israeli wars and the peace process|date=1990|publisher=St. Martin's Press|isbn=978-0-312-04649-1|location=New York|language=en|oclc=21039444}}
{{Cite book|title=How wars end: the United Nations and the termination of armed conflict 1946-1964|date=1982|publisher=Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-827424-7|location=Oxford; New York|language=en|oclc=8170274}}
{{Cite book|title=Peace is a Process (1993 Swarthmore Lecture)|date=1993|publisher=Quaker Home Service & Woodbrooke College|isbn=0-85245-249-7|location=London|language=en|url=https://archive.org/details/peaceisprocess0000bail/mode/2up|access-date=June 11, 2023}}
{{Cite book|title=The UN Security Council and human rights|date=1994|publisher=St. Martin's Press|isbn=978-0-312-12324-6|location=New York, N.Y.|language=en|oclc=30623807}}

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Sydney D. Bailey

Biography

Partial bibliography

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