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Article: Why peace and freedom?(Women's International League for Peace and Freedom)
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- Peace and Freedom
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- September 22, 2008
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Editor's Note: Emily Green Balch (1867-1961) wrote this pamphlet explaining the origins of WILPF's name in 1935. Along with Jane Addams, Balch helped found WILPF and served as first international secretary from 1919 to 1922. A former settlement house worker and economics professor (she was fired after 25 years at Wellesley for teaching "pacifism not economics") she went on to write important reports on Haiti and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946.
She begins her pamphlet by quoting a column from The Nation in which the author comments on the popularity of the Statue of Liberty, but goes on to say' " ... among us grown-ups, liberty either in bronze or in life has ...