Article December 18, 1926 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Harry Levi, J. A. Hutton, J. L. Neill

[From the New Outlook, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]

Perhaps the greatest hope of peace lies in the women of the world. On one point the women of all nations—who are really the greatest sufferers by war—are coming to agreement, and that is a determination no longer to stand for the foolish, futile, and criminal human sacrifices of the battle field. This sentiment has been finely expressed by a German woman at the recent Triennial Congress of the International Women's Suffrage Alliance in Paris. Dr. Gertrude Baumer, member of the German Reichstag and Minister of the Interior, brought a week's building of international friendships to a climax, and roused unbounded enthusiasm in the Assembly by saying: "In speaking to this assembly in Paris I have constantly felt those terrible memories which have separated us. I have thought of the words of a young French soldier who spoke with tenderness and profound esteem of the men in the war, even his enemies. I believe there is a similar feeling among women for women, mothers for mothers, who have suffered and sacrificed so much. And I accept these sentiments of tenderness and esteem of women for women which they need to bring them into peace. They bring an ideal, that of reconstruction for the people with hope and confidence. I accept this ideal as worth living for and worth making the supreme sacrifice for."

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