Opis: Report of the Third International Congress of Women, Vienna, July 10-17, 1921 (Classic Reprint) - Rd Women's International League for Pe

Excerpt from Report of the Third International Congress of Women, Vienna, July 10-17, 1921

Since this volume will come into the hands of many who are not members of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and who know nothing of its background and history it may be well to put a brief word of explanation at the beginning of the report of its latest Congress.

History of the League.

This active organized peace movement among women grew out of a meeting, held at the Hague in April 1915, when the war had been going on for some nine months. This meeting, called by Dr. Aletta Jacobs and others of the members of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, brought together women from twelve countries, including the then belligerent countries of England, Belgium, Germany, Austria, and Hungary, with many from the neutral nations. Convinced pacifists, they found themselves in complete accord and produced a very distinguished programme, in which much was already formulated that afterwards made part of the "Fourteen Points" of Wilson and the Covenant of the League of Nations.

The Congress, also dispatched a deputation to wait on the various governments and urge on their attention this programme, and especially a plan for continuous mediation by neutral countries.

The Hague Congress also resulted in the organization of the International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace under the Presidency of Jane Addams of the United States, and this developed at the second Congress, held at Zurich in May 1919, into the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Its Headquarters were then transferred from Amsterdam to Geneva and with a paid Secretary giving all her time to the work its activities multiplied.

The third Congress, held in Vienna in July 1921, is pictured in this report.

Organization of the League.

The League is a federal body operating under a very simple constitution. It now (July 1921) comprises 21 National Sections and a number of corresponding bodies which stand in a somewhat looser relation to it.

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Autor: Rd Women's International League for Pe
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781331033592
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 358
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