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*° MESSAGE of the Executive Committee of the Women's International Democratic Federation Women of all Countries! “On the Sth of Decesuber, 1952, the Congress of the Peoples for Peace will open in Vienna. It will ‘ bring together all those whose dearest wich is to see violence and war replaced by the spirit of negotiation and underttanding among the peoples. Young mother bending orer your baby’s cradle; greyhaired mother, you who have often in your lifetime experienced the horrible cruelty of war; young girl standing hopefully on the threshold of life; working woman, you who help to create your country’s wealth; peasant woman sowing the grain that turns the fields to gold; teacher and writer, whose life-work is to foster nobility in man; physician and nurse who protect life and health; scientist and artist whose task it is to enrich the life of man with well-being and beauty. Whatever the color of your skin, whatever your religion or political convictions, whatever the country where you were bom, whether you are rich or poor, the Congress of the Peoples for Peace is your Conerest too, for war threatens to destroy your fife, your hopes, those whom you love and thas who love you. You cannot remain indifferent to this danger! You must understand and never forget that it is possible to prevent war; that by the joint efforts of all peoples, peace can be saved, and mothers need never more be tortured by the horror of seeing their own sons murdered or becoming murderers. At the Congress of the Peoples for Peace women and men will as never before express their wil] for peace and shew how to preserve it. WOMEN! We cannot wait. Remember that every new defender of peace defends your child and the happurere wi your home. Go from houte to house with the news of the Congress of the Peoples for Peace! Go to other women, whatever their opinions or beliefs, talk with them and work out with them solutions which your delegates will bring to the Congress of the peoples! Expiain tirelessly to your families, your friends, your neighbors, that it is both possible and essential to prevent war! The war in Korea mast be ended! Armaments must be reduced! “ Atomic and bacteriological weapons and weapons of mass extermination mast be banned! Re-bom German and Japanese militaritm must be stopped! A Pact of Peace must be signed! Let us as women add our will to the will of hundreds of millions of other people, so that it may become an invincible force in the defence of peace. PEACE WILL TRIUMPH! Bucharest, $8 - 22 July 1952 (00- 3YY YY F - 303