The Pacific ( English pacific - “ peaceful, peace-loving, conciliatory ”) is an international symbol of peace, disarmament , anti-war movement . This mark (☮) was originally created for the British nuclear disarmament movement . Designed and completed on February 21, 1958 by professional British artist and designer for the march of the Direct Action Against Atomic War Committee. The march was scheduled to be held on April 4 from Trafalgar Square in London to the Office of Nuclear Weapons Research in Eldermeston in England [1] . After that, the symbol was adopted by the Movement for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and in the 1960s became the international emblem of the antiwar movement and counterculture of that time.
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The sign is a combination of semaphore signals N and D, which means "nuclear disarmament" ( eng. Nuclear disarmament ). In the semaphore alphabet, the letter N is transmitted holding two flags in the form of an inverted letter V, and the letter D is directed one flag up and the second down. These two signals, superimposed on each other, form the shape of a peace sign. In the first official version of CND, the lines extended from the center, and the mark was white on black [2] .
Holt later wrote to Hugh Brock, editor of magazine, explaining the origin of the idea in more detail:
I was desperate. Deep despair. I portrayed myself, a man in despair, with his hands down and extended to the sides, like a peasant before a firing squad by Goya . I formalized the drawing in a line and made a circle around it.
Another possible meaning of the pacific sign may be the union of all roads into one as a symbol of the unity of mankind.
There are also interpretations of this symbol as a pigeon footprint.
The peace sign first became known in the USA in 1958, after Albert Bigelow sailed in his small boat, decorated with the flag with the peace sign, to the site of nuclear testing. The symbol badge was brought to America in 1960 by Philip Altback, a student at the University of Chicago , who traveled to England as a delegate from the Student Peace Union (SPU) to meet with English peace supporters. Altback bought a bag of badges with a “trace of chicken” and brought back to Chicago, where he convinced SPU to retype the badges and use the badge as his emblem. Over the next four years, SPU printed and sold thousands of hostel badges. By the end of the 1960s, the peace sign became an international symbol adopted by opponents of the war [3] .
A funny and perhaps the most famous fact of my biography - I was the one who brought the symbol of peace (the sign "pacific" or "cross of the world") to the United States. It was invented by the English professional artist Gerald Holt specifically for the “Peace March” of 1958, after a trip to England I convinced my comrades to use it as a symbol of our organization, and then it became a symbol of the struggle against the Vietnam War and a symbol of peace [4] .
In Unicode, the peace sign is U + 262E: ☮ and therefore can be represented in HTML as ☮ or ☮ . However, the browser may not have a suitable font to display it.
The original image of the CND mark is kept at the Peace Museum in England [5] , where an exact copy is on display.
Facts
- In 1973, the South African government tried to ban the use of the symbol by opponents of apartheid [6] .
See also
- Pacifism
- Pacific - Pacific
- Dove of peace
Notes
- ↑ A Piece of Our Time . Time Date of treatment November 9, 2015. Archived March 1, 2012.
- ↑ The CND logo . Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Date of treatment July 31, 2018. Archived March 1, 2012.
- ↑ Kolsbun, Ken. Peace: The Biography of a Symbol / Ken Kolsbun, Mike Sweeney. - National Geographic Books, 2008. - ISBN 9781426202940 .
- ↑ "The tower is not afraid to take risks" . Higher School of Economics .
- ↑ The Peace Museum, Bradford . The Peace Museum. Date of treatment November 9, 2015.
- ↑ "World's best-known protest symbol turns 50" Archived on April 15, 2012. . BBC News Magazine , March 20, 2008
Links
- Curius, S. Symbols of the struggle for peace (Picasso dove, Sadako crane and Holtom's "pacific") (2006). Date of treatment November 9, 2015.
- The peace symbol “pacific” marks the anniversary: it is 50 years old . Newsru.com. Date of treatment November 9, 2015.