THE SACRED WAR.
WOMEN'S CONGRESS DENOUNCED. The Paris Uaulois lias published the text of the reply sent by Mine. Juliette Adam to the invitation sent her by Mrs. Ellinor Fell to attend the International Women's Congress at The Hague. In her letter Mine, Adam says
" Madame,Are you truly an English woman? Although I am but little of a suffragette, I must confess to you that I better understand those English women who would like to fight. " England and France to-day have proof of what arbitration and mediation would have done for us. To ask French women at v this moment to talk of arbitration and mediation to discuss an' armistice is to ask of the national abdication of their rights.
" All that French women could desire is to watch over and applaud their children, their husbands,, their brothers, even their fathers, with the conviction that a defensive war is such a sacred thing'that everything- should be given up, everything forgotten. everything sacrificed, that death itself should be faced heroically to defend and to 'savo what is most holy ,iu the world—one's country."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15948, 19 June 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)
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182THE SACRED WAR. New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15948, 19 June 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)
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