Back مؤتمر النساء المتحالفات لخدمات الحرب Arabic Congresso de Mulheres dos Aliados no Serviço de Guerra Portuguese
 Poster announcing the conference, designed by Neysa McMein | |
| Date | 21–22 August 1918 |
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| Duration | 2 days |
| Venue | Théâtre des Champs-Élysées |
| Location | Paris, France |
| Theme | "To improve the unparalleled opportunity of interpreting to one another the women of the nations in whose hands will rest in increasing measure the formative influences in the building of the new world. It is believed that such forces, rightly stimulated and directed will shorten the war." |
| Organised by | 26 member Executive Committee chaired by Virginia Vanderbilt |
| Participants | Women of the Allied nations, French, British, American, Italian, Belgian, and Serbian |
Congress of Allied Women on War Service (Congrès des Femmes alliées au service des œuvres de guerre) was a mass meeting of women on War Service. It was held in the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées of Paris, France, on 22 August 1918. Two thousand Allied women engaged in War Service were in attendance.[1] The Lyceum Club, on Rue de Penthièvre, branch of the London Lyceum, became headquarters of the Congress, and the environment suggested that an Inter-Allied Club for the Alliees might be the result of the movement.[2]
These women of the Allied nations, French, British, American, Italian, Belgian, and Serbian,[3] were looking far ahead. According to their program, they met "to improve the unparalleled opportunity of interpreting to one another the women of the nations in whose hands will rest in increasing measure the formative influences in the building of the new world. It is believed that such forces, rightly stimulated and directed will shorten the war."[1]
- ^ a b National Board of the Young Womens Christian Association 1918, p. 95.
- ^ Blackwell 1918, p. 462.
- ^ "CONGRESS OF WOMEN". New-York Tribune. 28 September 1918. p. 37. Retrieved 18 January 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
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