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The original documents are located in Box 48, folder "Women - Women's International
League for Peace and Freedom" of the Sheila Weidenfeld Files at the Gerald R. Ford
Presidential Library.
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WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM
LIGUE INTERNATIONALE DE FEMMES POUR LA PAIX ET LA LIBERTÉ
INTERNATIONALE FRAUENLIGA FÜR FRIEDEN UND FREIHEIT
PAX
Consultative Status with United Nations ECOSOC (category II) and UNESCO (category B): Special Consultative Relations with FAO, ILO. UNICEF.
INTERNATIONAL HEADQUARTERS: 1, RUE DE VAREMBÉ, CP 28, 1211 GENEVA 20, SWITZERLAND
Telephone (022) 33 75 - Cables: WILLIF, Geneva - Société de Banque Suisse, rue de Varembé, Geneva, Account C8-766-173.
Postal checking account 12-1869.
1213 Race Street
Please reply to:
Philadelphia, PA 19107
FIRST INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT
Jane Addems
Nobel Peace Prize 1931
FIRST INTERNATIONAL SECRETARY
Emily Greene Baich
December 198RD 10 1975
Nobel Peace Prize 1946
INTERNATIONAL OFFICERS
PRESIDENT:
Katherine L Camp, USA
Mrs. Betty Ford
VICE-PRESIDENTS:
Washington, D.C.
LIBRARY
Mary Nuttali, UK
Ratan Prabha Rai, India
RECORDING SECRETARY:
Dear Mrs. Ford:
Marguerite Lorée, France
TREASURER:
Ragnhild Simonsen, Denmark
I want to thank you for. your response of May 5th to our
INTERNATIONAL HEADQUARTERS
SECRETARY GENERAL AND EDITOR
prior invitation, but regret that you were unable to bring
Edith Ballantyne
greetings or participate in the International Women's Year
INTERNATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES
UNITED NATIONS:
Seminar, "Women of the World United For Peace: Disarmament
Mary Hornadey, New York
Lillian Brandon, New York
and Its Social Consequences", held at the United Nations.
Edith Ballantyna, Geneve
Organized by the Women's International League for Peace
UNESCO:
Yvonne Sée
and Freedom, the Seminar proved to be the major event of
Hélène Berthoz
ILO:
IWY to emphasize the third part of the Year's theme,
Marguerite Thibert
"Equality, Development, Peace."
FAO
Marina Della Sets
Together with follow-up community seminars in 37 cities
across the United States, the numbers of women involved
reached well into the millions.
Participants in the May Disarmament Seminars, the June
United Nations Tribune at Mexico City, and the October
World Congress for IWY at East Berlin, endorsed plans to
press the Member States of the United Nations for the set-
ting of an early date for a World Disarmament Conference.
We U.S. women would like to see our country play a leading
role in the calling of such a conference. Unfortunately,
the United States has not yet supported the proposal in
the General Assembly, and China has been dragging its feet.
But the consciousness of the women's movement throughout
the world is being raised to the fact that the annual ex-
penditure for "defense" is a criminal waste of resources--
human and financial-- that the world can no longer afford.
On this Human Rights Day, 1975, may I express our confi-
dence that you will join in spirit with these and other
millions of women around the world, who see the most basic
human right, --the right to live-- threatened and cheapened
by the anachronistic, costly and still escalating arms
race, and that you will exert your influence for a more
feminized and less violent society where life will be en-
hanced by concrete steps to a permanent peace.
With appreciation for your womanly forthrightness, we
extend our best wishes.
Digitized from Box 48 of the Sheila Weidenfeld Files
Yours sincerely,
at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
Kar, Came