To Executive Committee, Secretaries of National Sections and Consultative Members.
August 1925.
Dear Friends,
I am sorry to send out the Minutes of our Executive Meeting so late; they have been waiting a long time before all the resolutions came in from the Drafting Committees. I hope you will still be able to give them good publicity now.
Congress in Ireland:
We have been kindly invited to hold the next Congress in Ireland, during the summer of 1926; this invitation was accepted with great enthusiasm, as a hopeful sign of the progress made toward Peace in Ireland; we are sure our Selection there has had a great part in bringing this about. I hope they will tell us in what way we can best help to carry out what they so courageously undertook; I am sure that not only the Geneva Office, but each of our Sections will gladly do its utmost to contribute to a full success of the Congress.
We must begin very soon to prepare the Agenda of our Congress; I have received the 3rd of August a most appreciable answer of the Japanese Section to my circular letter of April 6th; even an answer by return mail would take three months to arrive!
Approaching the delegates to the League of Nations' Assembly:
Each Section is asked to present our important resolutions concerning the League of Nations (that on the Geneva Protocol versus Security Pacts and those on a Standing Committee and a general Code of Law for Minorities, in order to settle their complaints on a basis of justice) to the delegates of their country to the League of Nations' Assembly.
The Chinese situation:
It is advisable to present the telegram and the resolution about China to the Chinese representatives in each country, with the request to make them known in the Press of China. [page 2]
As you will see on page 7 of the Minutes, the Executive Meeting has accepted my resignation on which I had to insist even after all the kind expressions of thanks and appreciation for my work; the great effort to be up to the heavy responsibility of this task for three years has proved too much for my capacity to continue the work. The Executive Members have been charged to appoint an acting International Secretary to take my place; as we have not yet succeeded in getting one of the best known fellow-workers for it, we should be thankful for the suggestion of members who -- being convinced of the principles on which our work is based and knowing something of the history and Spirit of our League -- have the knowledge of our three languages and could dispose of their time and come to stay at Geneva.Along with such a personal recommendation, we should like to receive an account of the former work done by the suggested person on pacifist or international lines.
Hoping to hear from you soon,
very sincerely yours
Urgent!
Please tell me at once -- if you have not yet done it -- the name of
1) your delegates to the Congress for Child Welfare, Geneva, at which Mme. Duchêne will give a report on pacifistic education the 27th inst.;
2) your delegates to the Paris Peace Congress, first week of September.
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