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| ee 8 negative, and roused some good-tempered laughter by the sug- gestion that women were on their trial, and would be called * hysterical” if they condemned without qualification all that had been done by diplomats. Besides, were we not proposing to go to © those very same diplomats to ask them to change the Treaties ? He wanted an explanation of the assertion that the Treaties had infringed President Wilson's Fourteen Points. (This was not given far want of time, but we may say that, with the exception of Points 7 and 8, every.one of: the “ points ” was infringed in the letter and the spirit, and the fact that President Wilson himself allowed the massacre of his own principles offers no excuse for others to do the same.) It was evident, however, that M. Ruyssen as quite cordial in the good wishes he brought from the Inter- Najational Council of the League of Nations Unions. M. Otlet, another Belgian friend, rose to support the Conference very warmly. against M. Ruyssen’s criticisms, and explained that the appeal we should make would not by any means be to the “same diplomats.” One of the dramatic moments of the Conference occurred when Mme Donzova arrived on the last.day, having walked over the Polish frontier because’ of passpoit™difficulties. Another, when Miss Marshall, having invited us to “Coué” about the possibility of establishing peace, expressed the wordless aspiration by singing a lovely sentence from Mozart. The Co-operative women and the War-Resisters received warm welcome, RESOLUTIONS FOR ACTION. | This Conference was a focusing of opinion held among very idely differing sections of interest and thought, For this reason was considered well to set aside the long and reasoned series of resolutions which had been prepared and circulated, and to draft one short main resolution, which should be a sort of greatest common measure for the various demands. It was decided not to lay down any principles for a just peace (because one could not _debate or even state these in three days), except the one great principle that itshould be asrived at internationally, not sectionally, and the hard rule was made that no amendments would be allowed. This really did convert the gathesing into a Demonstra- tion, and as such it was taken. No vote was recorded against it and ‘the few who abstained. fyqm voting were not hostile, but only held some reservation. It must be understood, however, that the Women's International ‘League for Peace and Freedom has, from time to time, laid down ‘its principles in the matter of industrial and international! peace, and will act upon them as well as, from time to time, amend and add to them. Besides the important decision to send “Messengers to the Governments, the W.I.L.P.F. at its special session on Sunday afternoon received with approval the report of united action to be taken by the national sections in the Entente Countries in the matter of Reparations and Armies of Occupation. » It then passed the resolution to be sent to the Congress of the Inter- national Federation of Trade Unions (to which the W.LLP.F. had sent a large delegation), agreed on a message to be sent to the next Reparation Conference, and recommended various ways of making propaganda for a New Peace effective. Delegates from | the Women’s International League. There were delegations from the Women’s International League Sections in the following twenty countries : — Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Czecho-Slovakia, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Hungary, Irish Free State, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Roumania, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United States of America. Other Organizations represented. Austria. International Roman Catholic League. Oesterreichischer Versoehnunysbund. Belgium. Maison du Peuple. Bulgaria. oe American Board of Foreign Missions.