WOMEN IN CONFERENCE.
INTERNATJ.ONAL ASSEMBLY. BY' CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGHT. WASHINGTON, May 5. In opening the seventh quinquennial session of the International Council of Women, the Countess of Aberdeen declarer! that the organisation’s strength lay in its constitution’s inhibition against dealing with controversial political and religious issues between nations.
“Our special power as women,” she said, “lies in the formation of public opinion in favour of mutual aid and international co-operation, based on fuller knowledge and intercourse her tween the nations and their component parts.” She asserted that the council must strive to gather up the war-worn peoples of the earth in the arms of an enveloping motherhood, and soothe away ail their fears of one another and of an unknown future.”
Addresses were made in four official languages to the convention, viz., Eng. lish, French, German and Spanish.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 6 May 1925, Page 5
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