Dear Madam,
I am desired to inform you that our President, Madame d'Arcis, has been invited by the International Council of Women, of which, as you know, the Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair is President, to speak in Washington at their Quinquennial Congress, which is to take place from the 4th to the 14th of May at the new Washington Auditorium. She is to speak at the evening meeting on the 12th of May and her subject is "Women's Influence towards World Peace."
Madam d'Arcis hopes to take advantage of her trip to America to make other speeches and to tell the women there something of the work that is being done in Europe, for she feels she can truthfully say that our ideas for real Peace, the kind that is compatible with patriotism, are marching on. Of course, we have had over here, as in America, many hectic and radical movements, but, as you know, the International Council of Women is perhaps the oldest and most conservative of all women's [organizations] and the sane and spiritual ideal of the World Union seems to appeal to them tremendously. Madame d'Arcis believes there are many people in America who will respond with all their hearts to work for the prevention of the causes of war which cannot be accused of having anything to do with Bolshevism.
Last May, as President of the World Union of Women, she was invited to speak at the Conference on the Prevention of the Causes of War, convoked by Lady Aberdeen, in London. This very important Conference was attended by eminent specialists from all parts of the world.
I am sending you under separate cover a reprint of the two speeches made by Madame d'Arcis on that occasion and also a resumé of the work of the World Union, a copy of our new Manifest and a reprint of a biographical note used in the Press.
Madame d'Arcis hopes that if you are likely to be at the Congress in Washington she will have the pleasure of seeing you even if only for a minute or two. [page 2]
In case you wish to get into touch with her, her mailing address is
Yours cordially,
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