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THE HAGUE 1915 ZURICH 1919 . ; ~ VIENNA 1921 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS o OF THE : Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (__ EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE WW Jane Addams, President, Hull House, Chicago, U. S. A. Emily G. -Balch, Secretary-Treasurer, U. S, A.; Gertrud Baer, Germany; Thora Daugaard, Denmark; Facie Dejardin, Belgium ; Gabrielle Duchéne, France; Yella Hertzka, Austria; Lida Gustava Heymann, Vice Pressdentm Germany ; Catherine Marshall, Vice President, Great Britain; C. Ramonat-Hirschmann, Asst. Secretary, H —"" Date: May 1 to May 7, 1924. Place: Washington, U. S.A. Subject: A New Internationa! C " ‘The League met for the first time at The Hague in 1915 to protest against the war and to formulat ciples of permanent peace. A sceond Congress was held in 1919 in Zurich at the end of the war which analyzed the Versailles Treaty reported back to the Peace Conference then sitting in Paris those parts of the Treaty which they believe c the seeds of new wars. - . The third Congress, held in Vienna, 1921, reaffirmed the principles of the League and laid plans for work, especially in southeastern Europe. In December, 1922, because of the threatening conditions in Europe, the League called an Emergenc ference at The Hague. One hundred ten organizations with aggregate membership of ten million m women were represented. The Conference resolved to work unremittingly for a World Congress to be calc by the League of Nations, a single nation, or a group of nations to achieve a New Peace. Today, with the same high courage with which the members of the League faced militarism during ten years, they hope to find a way to reorganize international relations through the political and economic and sppritual Wednesday, April 30, 1924, 8:30 to 10:30 P. Headquarters for the Congress , Opening Reception . ° .. To the Foreign Delegates and to representatives of the Hall of Nations, Washington Hotel Embassies whose nationals are official representatives to the _ , 15th and Pennsylvania Ave. Congress. Addresses of Welcome by: Lucy_ Riddle ‘Lewis, National Chairman Women’s Inter- ~~. ~~: -- nationa’ League, Section for the United States. Mrs. Henry Villard, International Women’s Peace Society. Miss Elinor Byrns, Women’s Peace Union of the Western. Hemisphere. : . Mrs, Lucia Ames Mead, International Bureau for Peace. Mrs. Anna Garlin Spencer, International Council of Women. Miss Agnes G. Regan, International Union of Catholic Wo- men’s Leagues. Miss Waite, Institute of International Education. Mrs. Alexander Wolf, International Federation Council of Jewish Women. Miss Rose Schneiderman, International Congress of Working Women. , Mme. Helene LeRoy, Comité Internationale D’action Demo- cratique. Dr. Valeria H. Parker, International W. C. T. U. ; Mrs. George Mathes, World Alliance for Promoting Inter- ‘national Friendship Through the Churches. Mrs. Coralie Franklin Cook, Pan African Congress. Miss Edith Picton Turberville, International Y. W. C.A. Miss Grace Hutchins, International Fellowship of Recon- ciliation. . . | Hannah Clothier Hull, Friends’ Service Committee. Mrs. James B. Warbasse, International Cooperation Alliance. Mrs. Harry Edmonds, Intercollegiate Cosmopolitan Clubs. Distinguished members of other International Organizations committed to World Order. . poem Weshingwon Horel, United Seates Capitol, Pennsylvania Avenue