FIRST WORLD WAR WOMEN
working for peace in Melbourne 1914-1919
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40. THE WPA REPORTED THE WOMEN’S INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS
Letter from Miss Vida Goldstein,
Geneva, Switzerland 8 June 1919:
Quite the most wonderful and inspiring incident of
the whole (Women’s International) Congress was
when Fraulein Gustave Heymann, of Germany,
approached Mme Melin ... (and) presented her, in
the name of German women, with a simple bunch
of pink roses symbolising the beauty and
fragrance of the spirit of love that is universal,
that knows no enemy in persons. Mme Melin, who
knows the full horrors of war,replied with ... “It is
not my country, it is not your country that is guilty
of the crimes against humanity - c’est La Geurre,
c’est La Geurre” (It is War, it is war).
Woman Voter 1 September 1919 State Library of Victoria
Harriot Stanton Blatch, A Woman's Point of View some roads to peace
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