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written by Lucia True Ames Mead, 1856-1936, in Edwin D. Mead and Lucia Ames Mead Papers, 1876-1938, of Swarthmore College Peace Collection (Microfilm Reel 5, #33, [microform], Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1988. Originals held by Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.) (Swarthmore, PA) (May 1919); in Diary 1919 - [No. 2] , [NA]-[NA]
This portion of Lucia Ames Mead’s diary, beginning May 10, covered the 1919 WILPF Congress in Zurich. Mead described the proceedings of the Congress in detail, including speeches, motions for resolutions, and topics of discussion from delegates and observers from many nations. Mead called Jane Addams’s leaders...
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written by Lucia True Ames Mead, 1856-1936, in Edwin D. Mead and Lucia Ames Mead Papers, 1876-1938, of Swarthmore College Peace Collection (Microfilm Reel 5, #33, [microform], Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1988. Originals held by Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.) (Swarthmore, PA) (May 1919); in Diary 1919 - [No. 2] , [NA]-[NA]
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This portion of Lucia Ames Mead’s diary, beginning May 10, covered the 1919 WILPF Congress in Zurich. Mead described the proceedings of the Congress in detail, including speeches, motions for resolutions, and topics of discussion from delegates and observers from many nations. Mead called Jane Addams’s leadership, “patient, fair, shrewd, and kind.” Mead gave opening remarks on the Covenant of the League of Nations. The group issued the Bo...
This portion of Lucia Ames Mead’s diary, beginning May 10, covered the 1919 WILPF Congress in Zurich. Mead described the proceedings of the Congress in detail, including speeches, motions for resolutions, and topics of discussion from delegates and observers from many nations. Mead called Jane Addams’s leadership, “patient, fair, shrewd, and kind.” Mead gave opening remarks on the Covenant of the League of Nations. The group issued the Book on the Congress to peaceful people and governments. Over the course of the Congress, Mead wrote of discussions on topics including the League of Nations, disarmament, the rights of asylum, capital punishment, socialism, trafficking in women, blockades, trade, propaganda, the rights of prisoners, education, taxation, the Red Cross, and the malnutrition of children. The group was not in total agreement that capitalism was the cause of the war, but most seemed to identify as socialists. Some argued that the League was robbing and strangling Germany. They feared the creation of Alsace-Lorraine-like areas all over Europe. Addams hoped that once the bitterness died down, a better League of Nations could be developed. Lillian Wald thought that all countries should be more concerned about child welfare, malaria, and venereal disease. Ethel Snowden criticized the Paris peace treaty because it did not work for peace, but for war, which was not what the soldiers were fighting for. Mead wrote of their society’s “birthday” and new name [Women’s International league for Peace and Freedom]. The Congress received a telegram from President Wilson and he said their message appealed to both his head and heart. After the Congress ended, Mead described a banquet with several speakers, including Jane Addams. On May 18, she traveled to Berne, then Geneva, and back to Paris, to the Hotel Petrograd. Names mentioned by Mead in the diary include: Chrystal MacMillan, Emily Greene Balch, Jeanette Rankin, Florence Kelley, Alice Thatcher Post, Lillian Wald, Madeleine Doty, Aletta Jacobs, Dr. Wilson, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Mrs. Ashton (Lord Bryce’s sister-in-law), Rosa Kulka, Lida Gustava Heymann, Catherine Marshall, Ethel Snowden, Fran Perlen, Mademoiselle La Fontaine, and Anita Augspurg.
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Collection
Women and Social Movements, International
Date Written / Recorded
May 1919, 1919
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Diary/Memoir/Autobiography
Author / Creator
Lucia True Ames Mead, 1856-1936
Person Discussed
Lucia True Ames Mead, 1856-1936
Topic / Theme
Women and Education, Women and Immigration, Peace, International Governance, and International Law, Education as a Source of Women’s Emancipation, Citizenship Rights, International Peace
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Participation of Women in Public Life, [Speech to the International Women's Assembly, 21st-24th April 1960]
written by Nancy Reeves, fl. 1960, in Women Strike for Peace Records, 1961-1996, of Swarthmore College Peace Collection (Series B,1, Box 9, Folder "International Assembly of Women (1960)") (Swarthmore, PA) (1960) , 11 page(s)
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written by Nancy Reeves, fl. 1960, in Women Strike for Peace Records, 1961-1996, of Swarthmore College Peace Collection (Series B,1, Box 9, Folder "International Assembly of Women (1960)") (Swarthmore, PA) (1960) , 11 page(s)
Collection
Women and Social Movements, International
Date Written / Recorded
1960
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Speech/Address
Author / Creator
Nancy Reeves, fl. 1960
Person Discussed
Jane Addams, 1860-1935
Topic / Theme
Work and Class Identity, Social Reform and Political Activism, Political and Human Rights, Women and Immigration, Women and Development, Trade Unions, Political Parties and Other Male Dominated Organizations, Equal Rights for Women, Citizenship Rights, Economic Development
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