Mary Ryott Sheepshanks to Jane Addams, February 28, 1928

WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM

12, Rue du Vieux-Collège, Geneva, Switzerland

February 28, 1928.

Dear Friend,

Conference on Scientific War

It is with extreme regret that I have to tell you that we are obliged to postpone the conference on scientific warfare owing to the inability of practically all the speakers invited to come to Geneva in March owing to their other engagements. We shall hope to have a meeting of our Chemical War Commission before the Executive Committee and to fix a later date at which the conference can be held. If you have sent notices to people in your country perhaps you will kindly inform them of the postponement.

Executive Committee

I enclose the following documents dealing with a change in the Constitution:

1) document from the Irish Section,

2) document from the Social Group in Austria,

3) document from the German Group in [Czechoslovakia],

4) document from the United States Section,

5) document from the Dutch Section.

Russian Disarmament Proposal

The Vienna Political Group of the W.I.L. has published a German translation of [Litvinov]’s fourteen points and his speech to the Disarmament Commission and suggests that the other sections might usefully do something similar.

Yours sincerely,

MARY SHEEPSHANKS.
International Secretary.