Fourth International Congress for the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
[Pacifism]. Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. Fourth International Congress for the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. Washington: 1924.
Folio; single leaf; all four sides printed; black and white photograph on the front panel; folded, slight creases; else fine.
A preliminary agenda for the fourth International Congress of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom in Washington, D.C., convened to discuss the subject: “A New International Order.” The three previous conferences had been held at various European forums: The Hague in 1915 “to protest against the war and to formulate principles of permanent peace;” in Zurich in 1919 to “analyze the Versailles Treaty;” and in 1921, in Vienna to reaffirm the principles of the League and to lay plans for active work, especially in southeastern Europe.” The League also met in December 1922 for an Emergency Conference at The Hague because of the threatening conditions in Europe: “The Conference resolved to work unremittingly for a World Congress to be called by the League of Nations, a single nation, or a group of nations to achieve a New Peace.” Held in the United States, the fourth peace conference hoped to achieve “a way to recognize international relations through the political and economic and spiritual force, which underlie human endeavor.”
The Women’s International League of Peace and Freedom, founded in April 1915 at The Hague in Holland, gives due credit for its political birth to the Woman’s Peace Party of America. Led by Jane Addams (considered then “the most dangerous woman in America” for her political conviction), the Party sent a delegation of forty-seven American women to the International Congress of Women at The Hague in Holland to protest the war, which added crucial political weight. (For more on Addams see descriptions in this catalogue of her works.)
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