PACIFISTS IN VILLAGES
AVOiIKING ON THE FEELINGS OF THE WOMEN.
Pacifist speakers are now trying l<> organise a movement . ; u favour of » (Jernian peace by playing on tlio i'sars of working women in villages and small towns. Many readers have called attention to the- activities of Miss Jwa Gore-Booth, sister of the rebel Countess Murkieviez. In a recont isuie oi the"New Crusader," a paper thrust secretly under. doors at night, Aim CoreBooth discloses her plan of campaign. She advertises a "peace" meeting, ana when she has gathered her audience she pictures with ..he skill of aa educated woman and a practised speaker the horrors of war.' As a result she is nulo to .write: , ''The thoughts of their sons' aim their husbands' sufferings seem to haunt those women ;' their minds er« tortured by thought of terrible- cruelties and tragedies." Having brought her worhng-women listeners to this slate' of .mind, she makes mention of ''such things as 110 recent Parliamentary account of the execution of a nervous boy at Uie front." This dono she is ablo to write: "All were racked by anxiety, pity, and grief, and it was pitiful to sec tlio expression of pain and horror tliai swept over the listeners faces. — "Daily Miiil."
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 150, 14 March 1918, Page 3
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205PACIFISTS IN VILLAGES Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 150, 14 March 1918, Page 3
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