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yd,y.;rLeague for Peace Convenes TodayNational and local officers and delegates of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom are in New York City today to attend the 31st annual meeting of the United States section of the Women's International League. The meeting is being held in the FriendsMeeting House of Gramercy Park and will last through Sunday.Miss Vera Brittain, outstanding peace leader and author who has just arrived from England, will be the leading speaker at the convention. She is a member of the British Women’s International League. In addition to the speech, several important items, including reports by the national officers, the amending of the WIL constitution and an intensive short course on international peace fundamentals, will be given. The latter is to prepare the 20 United States delegates for the Luxembourg congress of the Womens International League on August 6.Washington women attending the conference are Mrs. Dorothy Med- i ders Robinson, national president; i Miss Dorothy Detzer, national sec-retary; Miss Elizabeth Haswell, research assistant; Miss Heloise Brainerd, inter-American co-ordinator, and Miss Bertha McNeill, interracial chairman. From the Washington (D. C.) branch are Mrs. Lloyd Signell, branch president, and Mrs. Alice Wirth and Mrs. Robert Dinkel, delegates.
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Evening Star
Washington, Washington-DC, US
Thu, May 02, 1946
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