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Plans Session
Here March II
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In Conference
By Gretchen Smith
Women's Club Editor

Women's Club Editor
The bonds which have been tight
ening the Americas yearly into
closer relationships, as better un-
derstanding is furthered by pro-
ponents of good will, will be knit
even more firmly when women from
the 81 republics assemble in Wash
ington to attend a conference of
the Peoples Mandate Committee to
End War to be held at the Shore
ham, March 81 and %.
The committee, whose chairman
Is DR.. Mary E. Woolley. president
emeritus of Mount Holyoke COL
lege for Women, was organized in
1885 with representatives in all the
american republics. Continuing
promotion of understanding between
the nations of the Western Hemis-
phere throughout the war, although
unable to assemble as a body, the
committees conference this month
will mark the first important event
in postwar program.
Purpose of Conference.
The purpose of the conference is
formulation of declaration of
principles which the committee de-
clares are essential as the basis for
durable peace.
Miss Mabel Vernon, director of
the committee, emphasizes that the
atom bomb has made it imperative
that the way to end war must be
found now.
Peace treaties now being made
will mainly determine whether we
have future war or peace" she
declared. These treaties must be
just and workable"
Insistence that the declaration of
the United Nations, signed by At
countries, be enforced will be the
keynote of the committee con-
ference.
The declaration, including purpose
and principles of the Atlantic Char
ter, no territorial aggrandizement,
free plebiscites, access on equal
terms to the trade and raw ma
terials of the world, fullest collabo-
ration in the economic field and
Tightening of armaments, looking
toward the abandonment of the
use of force, is not being observed
in agreements made by Russia,
Great Britain and the United States.
according to the Peoples Mandate
Committee.
The conference will open at IL
am. March 81, in the small ball
room of the Shoreham, with Miss
Vida Milholland presiding. Intro
duction of Latin American delegates
will high light the opening meeting
with Mrs. Thomas Burke, Latin
American chairman of the commit
tee,' making the introductions.
Mrs. Harvey w. Wiley will pre-
side at the afternoon session op-
ening at 2:30 o'clock that day when
organization leaders will report on
what their organizations are doing
towards the establishment of per-
manent peace.
Speakers Listed.
Those who will speak are: DR..
Helen Dwight Reed of the Ameri-
can Association of University Wom-
en-; Mrs. Ruth Kelso Renfrow, Gen.
eral Federation of Women's Clubs;
Miss Catherine Schaefer, National
Council of Catholic Women; Miss
Heloise Brainerd, Women's Interna-
tional League for Peace and Free
dom, and DR.. H. F. Read of the
American Friends Service Commit
tee.
Mrs. Burke will preside in the
evening when the program COM
mences at $3.50 o'clock. Speakers will
include the Ambassador of Ecuador,
Senor Gallo Plaza; the Ambassador
of Cuba, Senor DR.. Guillermo Belt,
ans a foremost Venezuelan journal
ist and novelist, Senorita Olga
Briceno.
Problems of the Far East, Europe,
and Manchuria will be discussed at
the session the second day, to open
at 10:30 am, with Mrs. Hourwich
Reyher presiding. Speakers will be
Dean William Crane Johnstone of
George Washington University, Col.
Harold B. Hinton, Washington Bu-
reau, New York Times, and DR..
George A. Finch, Carnegie Endow-
ment for International Peace.
DR.. Anita Figueredo, delegate from
Costa Rica, will preside at the ses-
sion, commencing at 2:30 o'clock,
when Mrs. Florence Brewer Boeckel,
chairman of the Platform Commit
tee, will make her report.
The conference will conclude with
adoption of the declaration of prin-
ciples."
The declaration will be sent to
President Truman, presidents of
other Western Hemisphere repub-
lies, and the Foreign Ministers of
Great Britain, Russia and the Uni
ted States. A delegate will also take
it to the General Peace Conference
now scheduled to be held not later
than May l.
Mrs. John T. Lucker, president of
the Women's City Club, is chairman
of the committee handling fraternal
delegates. Mrs. Hourwich Reyher is
program chairman and Mrs. Joseph
Russell McWhirt is chairman of
ushers.
Others assisting include Mrs.
Avery Coonley, DR.. Florence Arm
strong and Sonora Ruth Garcia
Granados, daughter of the Guate-
malan Ambassador.