Dear Madam,
Will you put this in your papers if you can and if you think well to do so:
"The WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM IS ENDEAVORING TO RAISE A NUMBER OF $25 or L 1 scholarships to enable a few German and Austrian students to attend its Summer School to be held in Northern Italy this summer. The following bits from letters of a young Berlin law student who attended our Vacation School at Salzburg last summer suggest why we think such scholarships are a good investment for friends of peace.
“The Day before yesterday an article appeared in the “Deutschen Tageszeitung”, entitled “Women as Judge,” It makes one’s hair stand on end to read of the way one writes in it of Man’s Right, Man’s Kultur and Man’s State. I am very sorry that one is still so far from acknowledging that woman also is human if I had not felt and experienced in Salzburg that my Ideal is right, I should be forced to believe that I’m struggling after a [phantom].”
“Prof. [Nicolai] had gone to the Argentine, the German press does not sing a song of praise after him, I personally refuse it to him because he did not stand and die for his own Peace ideal as others have done for example Liebknecht in the German Communist movement, or the Pacifist Hans Paasche of whom you have heard. . . But one understands me only with great difficulty, as a young German with ideals, that just my [Fatherland] through its deepest [dishonor] and humiliation should give the example that a people under all conditions must and can show “non-resistance.” The Swedish understand me, recently I received a letter from Malmö, there they say: how can your Ideals remain, when your lowered standard of living is oppressing you from day to day.”
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