Volume 16 , Issue 41

1914 - Women Working Hard Toward Peace In Europe

According to The Day Book, Chicago, Illinois, 2 December 1914, Women were working hard towards peace in the war in Europe. Mrs. Pethick Lawrence of London and Mme. Rosika Schwimmer of Budapest were aiming to bring peace to the warring countries.

Mme. Schwimmer was trying to get the people to petition Pres. Wilson to mediate. Mrs. Lawrence had a more involved plan for peace. She was suggesting the following terms:

Creation of machinery by which the democracies may exercise some control over foreign policy.

That all treaties and alliances on the part of any democratic nation shall be ratified by the people.

That the manufacture of armaments be nationalized and that the export of ammunition from one country to another be vetoed.

That the belligerent powers be held to their slogan that this is a war to end war.

That at the close of peace no province shall be transferred from one government to another without the consent of the population concerned. That women as well as men should be sent to The Hague Conference.

Saturday morning of 1914, December, in the Garrick theater they were to be the guests of honor and the principal speakers in a mass meeting intended to raise feeling against the war in Europe.
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