Message to the Executive Committee of the WIDF (1952): Congress of the Peoples for Peace, Vienna

=== [PDF page 1] === MESSAGE OF ME EXECUTIVE INTERNATIONAL Women of all Countries! On the 5th of December, 1952, the Congress of the Peoples for Peace will open in Vienna. It will bring together all those whose dearest wish is to see violence and war replaced by the spirit of negotiation and understanding among the peoples. Young mother bending over your baby’s cradle: gray-haired mother, you who have often in your lifetime experienced the horrible cruelty of war; young girl Standing hopefully on the threshold of life: working woman, you who help to create your country’s wealth; peasant woman sowing the grain that turns the fields to gold; teacher and writer, whose life-work is to foster nobility in man; physician and nurse who protect life and health; Scientist and artist whose task is to enrich the life of man with well-being and beauty: Whatever the color of your skin, whatever your religion or political convictions, whatever the country where you were born, whether you are rich or poor, the Congress of the Peoples for Peace is your Congress too, for war threatens to destroy your life, your hopes, those whom you love and those who love you You cannot remain indifferent to this danger! You must understand and never forget that it is possible to prevent war; that by the joint efforts of al] Peoples, peace can be saved, and mothers need never more be tortured by the horror of seeing their own sons murdered or becoming murderers. EUGENIE COTTON France NINA POPOVA Soviet Union EUGENIE PRAGUIEROVA Poland MARIE-CLAUDE VAILLANT-COUTURIER France Albania NEXMIJO HOXHA VITO KAPO Algeria ABASSIA FODIL Germany ELLI SCHMIDT EDITH BAUMANN LUISE DORNEMANN GERDA WEBER Australia DORIS McRAE Austria IRMA SCHWAGER Belgium JEANNE MULLIER The signing of the message to women of all lands. Ny = * aan 1 1 fe | l WAP ay (edt Loe ff UTG [Unreadable] [Ul (i CieWIre Wnte (Wu; | bf Pye We Leen ( N U NMG Pe chy At the Congress of the Peoples for Peace women and men will as never before express their will for Peace and show how to preserve it Women! We cannot wait. Remember that every new defender of peace defends your child and the happiness of your home Go from house to house with the news of the Congress of the Peoples for Peace! Go to other women, whatever their opinions or beliefs, talk with them and work out with them solutions which your delegates will bring to the Congress of the Peoples! Explain tirelessly to your families, your friends, your neighbors, that it is both possible and essential to prevent war! The war in Korea must be ended! Armaments must be reduced! Atomic and bacteriological Weapons and weapons of mass extermination must be banned! Re-born German and Japanese militarism must be stopped! A Pact of Peace must be signed! Let us as women add our will to the will of hundreds of millions of other people, so that it may become an invincible force in the defense of peace. Peace will triumph! oS eee a TE a ae ot a Brazil Great Britain Poland OFELIA DO AMARAL BOTELHO CLARE YUILLE ALICIA MUSIALOVA ES aa ee EDVARDA ORLOVSKA Bulgaria Greece; TZOLA DRAGOITCHEVA Roumania ROULA KOUKOULOU VAYA VOURNA CONSTANTA CRACIUN Chile LIUBA KISINEVSKI VIRGINIA BRAVO LETELIER Hungary ILEANA RACEANU ELISABETH VASS DIDA MIHALCEA China EDITH ERDEI MARIA CINCA SHEN YUAN HUI say MARIA ZIDARU ndia 7 FLORICA MEZINCESCU Denmark KAMLA SONI ALVILDA LARSEN a Sweden ndonesia KIRSTEN ZAHLE: Rae DARMINI MARGIT LINDSTROM Spain Iran Switzerland ELISA URIZ ESMETTE CHADJAHI CHARLOTTE MURET POURAN OMIDI United States ~ Czechoslovakia BEATRICE JOHNSON Italy: atid appre: MOLLY GIANNIS MARIA-MADDALENA ROSSI ANEZKA HODINOVA SPURNA MARY ADAMS GIULIANA NENNI TRENA DURISOVA RINA PICCOLATO TANA TUMOYA Finland ADA ALESSANDRINI ANNA SLECHTOVA HERTA KUUSINEN CARMEN ZANTI MARIA MATEJKOVA FIORELLA DELLA SETA LADISLAVA BESSEROVA France ar it ROSE MATET vee Turkey OLGA TOURNADE ead oo ae YILDIZ SERTEL FERNANDE VALIGNAT Norway; JULIETTE DUBOIS MIMI SVERDRUP LUNDEN vesneees SIMONE BERTRAND DAGMAR EILERTH LIDYA PETROVA ISABELLA BARONTINI JETTE DANIELSEN GALINA GOROCHKOVA === [PDF page 2] === MESSAGE OF ME EXECUTIVE INTERNATIONAL Women of all Countries! On the 5th of December, 1952, the Congress of the Peoples for Peace will open in Vienna. It will bring together all those whose dearest wish is to see violence and war replaced by the spirit of negotiation and understanding among the peoples. Young mother bending over your baby’s cradle: gray-haired mother, you who have often in your lifetime experienced the horrible cruelty of war; young girl Standing hopefully on the threshold of life: working woman, you who help to create your country’s wealth; peasant woman sowing the grain that turns the fields to gold; teacher and writer, whose life-work is to foster nobility in man; physician and nurse who protect life and health; Scientist and artist whose task is to enrich the life of man with well-being and beauty: Whatever the color of your skin, whatever your religion or political convictions, whatever the country where you were born, whether you are rich or poor, the Congress of the Peoples for Peace is your Congress too, for war threatens to destroy your life, your hopes, those whom you love and those who love you You cannot remain indifferent to this danger! You must understand and never forget that it is possible to prevent war; that by the joint efforts of al] Peoples, peace can be saved, and mothers need never more be tortured by the horror of seeing their own sons murdered or becoming murderers. EUGENIE COTTON France NINA POPOVA Soviet Union EUGENIE PRAGUIEROVA Poland MARIE-CLAUDE VAILLANT-COUTURIER France Albania NEXMIJO HOXHA VITO KAPO Algeria ABASSIA FODIL Germany ELLI SCHMIDT EDITH BAUMANN LUISE DORNEMANN GERDA WEBER Australia DORIS McRAE Austria IRMA SCHWAGER Belgium JEANNE MULLIER The signing of the message to women of all lands. Ny = * aan 1 1 fe | l WAP ay (edt Loe ff UTG [Unreadable] [Ul (i CieWIre Wnte (Wu; | bf Pye We Leen ( N U NMG Pe chy At the Congress of the Peoples for Peace women and men will as never before express their will for Peace and show how to preserve it Women! We cannot wait. Remember that every new defender of peace defends your child and the happiness of your home Go from house to house with the news of the Congress of the Peoples for Peace! Go to other women, whatever their opinions or beliefs, talk with them and work out with them solutions which your delegates will bring to the Congress of the Peoples! Explain tirelessly to your families, your friends, your neighbors, that it is both possible and essential to prevent war! The war in Korea must be ended! Armaments must be reduced! Atomic and bacteriological Weapons and weapons of mass extermination must be banned! Re-born German and Japanese militarism must be stopped! A Pact of Peace must be signed! Let us as women add our will to the will of hundreds of millions of other people, so that it may become an invincible force in the defense of peace. Peace will triumph! oS eee a TE a ae ot a Brazil Great Britain Poland OFELIA DO AMARAL BOTELHO CLARE YUILLE ALICIA MUSIALOVA ES aa ee EDVARDA ORLOVSKA Bulgaria Greece; TZOLA DRAGOITCHEVA Roumania ROULA KOUKOULOU VAYA VOURNA CONSTANTA CRACIUN Chile LIUBA KISINEVSKI VIRGINIA BRAVO LETELIER Hungary ILEANA RACEANU ELISABETH VASS DIDA MIHALCEA China EDITH ERDEI MARIA CINCA SHEN YUAN HUI say MARIA ZIDARU ndia 7 FLORICA MEZINCESCU Denmark KAMLA SONI ALVILDA LARSEN a Sweden ndonesia KIRSTEN ZAHLE: Rae DARMINI MARGIT LINDSTROM Spain Iran Switzerland ELISA URIZ ESMETTE CHADJAHI CHARLOTTE MURET POURAN OMIDI United States ~ Czechoslovakia BEATRICE JOHNSON Italy: atid appre: MOLLY GIANNIS MARIA-MADDALENA ROSSI ANEZKA HODINOVA SPURNA MARY ADAMS GIULIANA NENNI TRENA DURISOVA RINA PICCOLATO TANA TUMOYA Finland ADA ALESSANDRINI ANNA SLECHTOVA HERTA KUUSINEN CARMEN ZANTI MARIA MATEJKOVA FIORELLA DELLA SETA LADISLAVA BESSEROVA France ar it ROSE MATET vee Turkey OLGA TOURNADE ead oo ae YILDIZ SERTEL FERNANDE VALIGNAT Norway; JULIETTE DUBOIS MIMI SVERDRUP LUNDEN vesneees SIMONE BERTRAND DAGMAR EILERTH LIDYA PETROVA ISABELLA BARONTINI JETTE DANIELSEN GALINA GOROCHKOVA