The rainbow colored PACE flag, ( Italian for ' peace') In 1938, Kirk authored an autobiography, Stranger than fiction: four times around the world, designer of world flag, a world builder, at 80 years makes a new start in life. The flag also shows 46 stars surrounding the globe and the spectrum. It consisted of "the earth on a blue field covered with white stars a white band crossed the globe and to the left was broken up into a spectrum representing the variations of the human race-different, but united in peace". ![]() The Universal Peace Congress eventually came to adopt Kirk's flag as its official World Peace Flag, and it was subsequently adopted by the American Peace Society as well as other groups. He traveled around the world arguing for "the brotherhood of man and the Fatherhood of God". ![]() In 19, he made a peace tour through Europe with his flag. James William van Kirk, a Methodist minister from Youngstown, Ohio designed the first world peace flag of the Earth, using rainbow stripes, stars and a globe. The Universal Peace Congress' world peace flag In 1904, it lost the complicated design and became a simple tricolor. ![]() This flag was adopted by the International Council of Women in 1896. surmounted by a man's and a woman's clasped hands, sustained by a pair of dove wings with a white star aloft on the shield can appear any device chosen by the association adopting the flag, or simply the number of enrollment among the users of the flag, or the motto Pro Concordia Labor (For Peace I Work), or this motto may be placed upon a ribbon on the flag beneath the shield, or on a streamer (white) from the flag staff (blue, the color of promise) surmounted by a star with the motto of the association or individual using the flag upon the other white streamer". Originally, there was a complicated symbol on the middle band: "a shield. ![]() In the 1890s, expatriate American Cora Slocomb di Brazza Savorgnan, the Countess Di BrazzĂ , invented a universal peace flag with three upright bands: yellow, purple, and white, which became the peace flag of the International Peace Bureau. 1904 simplified design of the flag of universal peace
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