The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-10-15
WANT UNITED STATES
TO Take PEACE LEAD
WARNING EUROPE WANTS NEr.
TRIAL NATIONS To HOLD
PEACE CONFERENCES.
This Request Is Made Of the Inter.
national Congress at the Hague.
Three Nations Agree.


wants a Peace Conference OF neutral
nations If it is led by the United
States. Three neutral nations have
agreed. Two are considering. The
United States has not decided.
The authorized official of every
nation now at war authorized this
statement by The International Con-
gress of Women at The Hague, after
an authorized delegate of the con-
gress conferred with him.
These facts are contained in a.
statement issued here today by The
International Committee of wom-
en- for permanent peace, with a copy
of The Hague Women's Congress
manifesto to the governments of Eu-
| rope and the president of the United
States, attached.
In their joint report the leading
members of these two delegations
unite in stating that the evidence and
assurances given them have con-
vinced them that the belligercnts
would not consider such conference
unfriendly, and that the neutrals
would not be willing to act, if first
assured of American cooperation.
| The delegates were not at liberty
to give names or nationality of the
foreign offices specifically quoted,
but in several instances they quote
verbatim: MY country would not
i find anything unfriendly in such ac-
| ton by the neutrals," are the words
! credited to the foreign minister of
| enc great belligerent. my govern
ment wound place no obstacle in the
/ way of its institution said the min
lister of an opposing nation. What
are the neutrals waiting for said
4 a third, whose name. it was stated
ranks high, not only in his own
country, but all over the world.
The ENJOYS we're received by the
following. among others:
Prime minister Asquith and For
eign Minister Sir Edward Grey, in
London.
veg, and Foreign Minister Won ia
COW, in Berlin.
Prime Minister Stuergkh, Foreign
Minister Burian, in Vienna, Prime
Minister Tisza, in Budapest.
Prime Minister Salandr and For
eign Minister Sonic. in Rome.
Prime Minister viviani and For
eign Minister Delcasse, in Paris.
Foreign Minister dAvignon, in
Havre.
Foreign Minister sasonoff. in
Petrograd.
And by the following representa-
tives of neutral governments:
Prime Minister Cort van der Lin
den and Foreign Minister Loudon,
in the Hague.
| Prime Minister Zahle and Foreign
Minister Scavenius, in Copenhagen.
! King Haakon, Prime Minister
iNhuuScH, oici6H hihiStSI IHieH,
and by Messrs. Loveland, Aarsted
| Castberg and Jahren, the four presi-
dents of the Storthing in Christiania.
| Foreign Minister Wallenberg, in
Stockholm.
President Motta and Foreign Min
lister Hoffman, in Berne.
President Wilson and Secretary
OF State Lansing in Washington.
While in Rome. the delegation
went unofficially that is to say,
without a mandate from the con-
gress, to an audience with the Pope
and the Cardinal Secretary of State.
The international Congress of Wo-
| men, which met at The Hague last
April, appointed two groups of en-
voys. one to the helligerent govern
ments. and TO Holland and Switzer-
land. the other to Russia and the
Scandinavian countries. The reports
of these embassies form the basis
for the announcement issued today
here and in Amsterdam.
The manifesto is signed by DIR.
Jacobs. OF Holland. Miss Chrysthl
Macmillan. of Great Britain, Nine.
Rosika Schwimmer, of Austria-Hun-
gary; Prof. Emily Greene Balch. of
Wellesley College, and Miss Jane
Adams. of Hull House, Chicago.
Miss Adams is president of the in
ternational committee: Miss Macmil-
Ian. secretary; DR.. Jacobs and Nine.
Schwimmer, vice-chairman.
The manifesto says in part:
1--WE heard much the same words
spoken in Downing Street as those
spoken in Wilhelmstrasse. In Vienna
as in Petrograd. in Budapest as in
the Havre, where the BalgSns have
their temporary government.
You are right. said one minis |
ter, that it would be of the greatest