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    "ocrText": "The original documents are located in Box 48, folder \"Women - Women's International\nLeague for Peace and Freedom\" of the Sheila Weidenfeld Files at the Gerald R. Ford\nPresidential Library.\nCopyright Notice\nThe copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of\nphotocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Gerald Ford donated to the United\nStates of America his copyrights in all of his unpublished writings in National Archives collections.\nWorks prepared by U.S. Government employees as part of their official duties are in the public\ndomain. The copyrights to materials written by other individuals or organizations are presumed to\nremain with them. If you think any of the information displayed in the PDF is subject to a valid\ncopyright claim, please contact the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.\nWOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM\nLIGUE INTERNATIONALE DE FEMMES POUR LA PAIX ET LA LIBERTÉ\nINTERNATIONALE FRAUENLIGA FÜR FRIEDEN UND FREIHEIT\nPAX\nConsultative Status with United Nations ECOSOC (category II) and UNESCO (category B): Special Consultative Relations with FAO, ILO. UNICEF.\nINTERNATIONAL HEADQUARTERS: 1, RUE DE VAREMBÉ, CP 28, 1211 GENEVA 20, SWITZERLAND\nTelephone (022) 33 75 - Cables: WILLIF, Geneva - Société de Banque Suisse, rue de Varembé, Geneva, Account C8-766-173.\nPostal checking account 12-1869.\n1213 Race Street\nPlease reply to:\nPhiladelphia, PA 19107\nFIRST INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT\nJane Addems\nNobel Peace Prize 1931\nFIRST INTERNATIONAL SECRETARY\nEmily Greene Baich\nDecember 198RD 10 1975\nNobel Peace Prize 1946\nINTERNATIONAL OFFICERS\nPRESIDENT:\nKatherine L Camp, USA\nMrs. Betty Ford\nVICE-PRESIDENTS:\nWashington, D.C.\nLIBRARY\nMary Nuttali, UK\nRatan Prabha Rai, India\nRECORDING SECRETARY:\nDear Mrs. Ford:\nMarguerite Lorée, France\nTREASURER:\nRagnhild Simonsen, Denmark\nI want to thank you for. your response of May 5th to our\nINTERNATIONAL HEADQUARTERS\nSECRETARY GENERAL AND EDITOR\nprior invitation, but regret that you were unable to bring\nEdith Ballantyne\ngreetings or participate in the International Women's Year\nINTERNATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES\nUNITED NATIONS:\nSeminar, \"Women of the World United For Peace: Disarmament\nMary Hornadey, New York\nLillian Brandon, New York\nand Its Social Consequences\", held at the United Nations.\nEdith Ballantyna, Geneve\nOrganized by the Women's International League for Peace\nUNESCO:\nYvonne Sée\nand Freedom, the Seminar proved to be the major event of\nHélène Berthoz\nILO:\nIWY to emphasize the third part of the Year's theme,\nMarguerite Thibert\n\"Equality, Development, Peace.\"\nFAO\nMarina Della Sets\nTogether with follow-up community seminars in 37 cities\nacross the United States, the numbers of women involved\nreached well into the millions.\nParticipants in the May Disarmament Seminars, the June\nUnited Nations Tribune at Mexico City, and the October\nWorld Congress for IWY at East Berlin, endorsed plans to\npress the Member States of the United Nations for the set-\nting of an early date for a World Disarmament Conference.\nWe U.S. women would like to see our country play a leading\nrole in the calling of such a conference. Unfortunately,\nthe United States has not yet supported the proposal in\nthe General Assembly, and China has been dragging its feet.\nBut the consciousness of the women's movement throughout\nthe world is being raised to the fact that the annual ex-\npenditure for \"defense\" is a criminal waste of resources--\nhuman and financial-- that the world can no longer afford.\nOn this Human Rights Day, 1975, may I express our confi-\ndence that you will join in spirit with these and other\nmillions of women around the world, who see the most basic\nhuman right, --the right to live-- threatened and cheapened\nby the anachronistic, costly and still escalating arms\nrace, and that you will exert your influence for a more\nfeminized and less violent society where life will be en-\nhanced by concrete steps to a permanent peace.\nWith appreciation for your womanly forthrightness, we\nextend our best wishes.\nDigitized from Box 48 of the Sheila Weidenfeld Files\nYours sincerely,\nat the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library\nKar, Came"
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