235:. The team of volunteers, which set to work in November 1920, included three Germans, an Austrian and a Dutchman. A Dutchwoman covered the initial costs of the work and did the cooking and washing. They constructed two wooden houses and then, when the French government cancelled their contract, turned to clearing fields of debris, filling up shell-holes and repairing a road until, in April 1921, the French authorities asked them to leave. In spite of its premature end, the project had been of benefit to both the volunteers and the villagers, and Cérésole's enthusiasm for workcamps was undiminished.
274:. Cérésole was inspired by Gandhi's thinking, but also disagreed with parts of his non-cooperation approach. While they agreed on refusing to support any military activity by any government, Cérésole was ready to cooperate with governments no matter their ideology on other grounds. Between 1934 and 1937 Cérésole worked with a team of three (SCI member Paul Schenker and two English Quakers) helping to rebuild villages in
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continuing his work as secretary of SCI. On two occasions, as a protest against the war, he illegally attempted to cross the border into
Germany, which landed him in prison for several weeks. In 1941 he married Lise David. He died in
208:, Cérésole donated his inheritance to the Swiss state and worked as an engineer. He took up the pacifist cause, speaking at meetings and refusing to pay his military tax, for which he was sentenced to a day in prison.
223:. It was at the second of these meetings that Cérésole, inspired by the words of a German delegate, offered to put together a team to carry out practical reconstruction work. Cérésole, together with English
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