October, 1925.
To National Sections and Consultative Members.
Dear Friends,
I am still in Geneva, as Madeleine Doty, who will take my place here, is obliged somewhat to postpone her sailing from New York.
Dublin Congress.
I am therefore obliged to send you the first circular letter on Congress matters, which will probably be my last from here.
We must begin at once to prepare the preliminary Agenda for the Dublin Congress, if we want to have time to discuss it and send it out in its final form long enough before the Congress to allow for exact instructions to be given to the delegates. At Washington a few delegates complained that they had not received the final Agenda in time, forgetting that their own sections had not sent, or had sent late, their answer concerning the preliminary Agenda, for which the Geneva office had to wait. Let us avoid such inconveniences in connection with the Dublin Congress.
Subject. First of all, we have to choose the subject to be considered by the Congress. Four proposals have been laid before us by members of the Executive Committee:
1. to deal with [nonviolence] in education, in legislation, in politics, in economic life, etc.;
2. to take up only part of the above question, i.e. imperialism, especially in colonial policy;
3. to choose a question arising from the deliberations of the Sixth Assembly of the League of Nations.
4. with reference to 3., to concentrate our work during the year as well as the Congress, on Free Trade and on Unemployment, in order to make sure that both these questions will be put on the Agenda of the International Economic Conference, proposed at the [page 2] Assembly by the French delegate, Loucheur, the calling of which was left to the Council.
What is your suggestion? Which of these questions do you find the most appropriate for the Agenda of our Congress? Or what other suggestion do you offer? It will be especially interesting to know what the Irish Section thinks about this matter. Please reply before the 1st November, so that Madeleine Doty may be able to work out the Agenda very soon. We shall have to invite Referents for whichever of these questions is chosen in time for them to be able to prepare for their task.
Armistice Day.
Let me remind you that the 11th November and the following Saturday and Sunday will give an opportunity of reminding people in every country -- not of victory or of defeat -- but of the day in 1918 when millions of human beings hoped that Peace had come. In England and in America great demonstrations to this end are already being arranged.
I am sure that Madeleine Doty will take up the work here with energy and enthusiasm, and I hope you all will kindly help her to carry it out successfully. I want to thank very much all of you who have given me help and encouragement during my three years' stay in Geneva. I shall make use of the experience I have acquired here in continuing my work within the Executive Committee and the Hungarian Section.
Very sincerely yours,
Vilma Glücklich [signed]
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