welker bestudeering het zeker gewenscht ware, de opvatting van de vrouw te vernemen.
De Nationale Vrouwenraad van Nederland kan om deze redenen niet krachtig genoeg opkomen tegen de tegenwoordige samenstelling van den Onderwijsraad en verzoekt daarom Uwe Excellentie zeer nadrukkelijk, indien mogelijk, alsnog meerdere vrouwen te benoemen en in elk geval zorg te willen dragen, dat in de toekomst aan de belangen van de vrouw op het geheele onderwijsgebied meer recht wedervare.
Hetwelk doende met verschuldigden eerbied namens den Nationalen Vrouwenraad van Nederland.
De Presidente:
JOHANNA W. A. NABER.
De 1ste Secretaris:
B. ELIAS.
THE WOMEN'S DEPUTATION TO THE
LEAGUE OF NATIONS COMMISSION
OF THE PEACE CONFERENCE.
A joint deputation from the International Council of Women and the Inter-allied Conference of Women Suffragists now sitting in Paris was accorded the special privilege of being the only delegation received in audience by the League of Nations Commission of the Peace Conference.
The Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair, President of the International Council of Women, introduced the deputation on Thursday, lOth April, explaining that the International Council was a federation of National Councils in 22 different countries, and represented some 20 millions of women belonging to organised Societies all over the world. It could, therefore, be considered a pioneer Women's League of Nations, formed to promote greater unity of thought and action amongst women working for the welfare of the human race and was in an eminent degree fitted to spread the principles underlying the League of Nations. In order, however, to secure the entire co-operation of women, the deputation wished to urge on the Commission the inclusion of certain points in the Covenant:
I. THE POSITION OF WOMEN ON THE COMMISSIONS AND IN THE PERMANENT SECRETARIATS.
Whereas the League of Nations is demanded by the masses of the people; and
Whereas its character, to be effective, should be democratic and representative; and
Whereas half the people of the world are women;
The International Council of Women and the Conference of Women Suffragists of the allied Countries and the United States petition as follows:
That women be equally eligible with men to the body of delegates, the Executive Council and the Permanent Secretariat and should be appointed to all the permanent Commissions on the same terms as men.
- N o t e. A clause has been added to the Covenant making women eligible for all bodies and posts set up under the league.
II. MORAL QUESTIONS.
Whereas certain countries still maintain laws and customs which practically keep their women in a state of slavery:
(a) That they decide the fate of children by promising them in marriage at an early age;
(b) By the toleration of either the openly-avowed or privately arranged sale of women; and
Whereas the countries represented at the Peace Conference must recognize not only the right of nations, but also of individual citizens; and
Whereas the special measures taken under pretext of public health or public safety with regard to women who are, or are suspected of being prostitutes, finally achieve the entire degradation of these unhappy creatures, are a danger to public health in creating a false feeling of security in a dissolute life, and are thus in themselves an incentive to disorder and immorality;
The International Council of Women and the Conference of Women Suffragists of the Allied Countries and the United States petition as follows:
1. To suppress the sale of women and children.
