WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM
To Executive Members.
Geneva, September 3d, 1925.
Dear Friends,
Next Congress. With Mme. Duchêhe and Mme. Ramondt whose pleasant company I have been and am enjoying for some time, we have talked over -- among other questions concerning our work -- that of the subject for the next Congress. We agreed upon the absolute necessity of inviting the Referents a long time beforehand, so as to give them ample time for a study of their special part of the subject.
There are already two proposals before us which came in from two members of the Executive Committee quite spontaneously:
1) to deal with [nonviolence] as applied to education, jurisdiction, settlement of political matters (in home as well as foreign affairs) etc;
2) to deal with the problems of imperialism in general and especially with colonial questions; this of course might be taken up as part of the subject of [nonviolence].
Will you kindly let me know soon your opinion about these two suggestions and whether you can help us in finding Referents, either experts in some part of the subject or able and ready to undertake a special study with a view to the Congress.
Have you any other suggestions to offer? (I should like to avoid for my successor the reproach I had to hear in Washington about the communications having gone out too late to the sections). You will remember that in the resolution passed by 17 delegates sailing back to Europe on the Andania, it has been asked that the Agenda should be issued several months beforehand; besides, the British Section suggested to ask for proposals from our sections before it is issued. This does not give us very much time, as the Irish Section is planning to have Congress in July.*
Acting Secretary. As the majority of the answers to my last letter approved of Madeleine Doty's appointment and as we had asked for and received Miss Addams' approval by cable, she will take charge of the office on October first and I shall leave shortly after that. If I could have your answers in time to issue an appeal for suggestions to the sections I should do it with the warning to send only few and important ones.
*Should the League of Nations' Assembly bring into the foreground some very urgent and important question, we could still take it into consideration.
Hoping to hear from you soon
very sincerely yours
Vilma Glücklich [signed]
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