reached the age of 84 she could
not stand as candidate for the presidency and it was unanimously voted
that she be made honorary president. The following officers were
elected: President, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, New York; first
vice-president, Dr. jur. Anita Augspurg, Hamburg; second
vice-president, Mrs. Millicent Garrett Fawcett, London; secretary,
Mrs. Rachel Foster Avery, Philadelphia; first assistant secretary, Dr.
Kaethe Schirmacher, Paris (address temporarily); second, Miss Johanna
A. W. Naber, Amsterdam; treasurer, Miss Rodger Cunliffe, London.
(Later Miss Naber resigned and Miss Martina G. Kramers of Rotterdam
was appointed.)

The Executive Committee of the new Alliance met June 6 at the Palast
Hotel. It was arranged that fifty copies of the Declaration of
Principles, the Constitution and the Minutes be typed in Berlin and
sent to the presidents of the affiliated societies and the honorary
associates. It was decided to postpone application for auxiliaryship
to the International Council of Women for at least two years.
Correspondence with the countries requiring special information was
assigned as follows: "To Mrs. Catt, Australia; to Dr. Augspurg, Norway
and Austria; to Dr. Schirmacher, Italy and France; to Miss Naber,
Switzerland and Belgium. It was decided that the Alliance should meet
every five years for the election of officers, revision of the
constitution, etc., but that during this period executive meetings
and congresses might be held.[222]

THIRD CONFERENCE OF THE ALLIANCE.

The first Executive Meeting and Third Conference of the Alliance was
held at Copenhagen Aug. 7-11, 1906, in the Concert Palais, in response
to a Call from the president, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, and secretary,
Mrs. Rachel Foster Avery, to the affiliated National Woman Suffrage
Associations, which said:

An especial invitation to send fraternal delegates is extended to
all societies known to be in sympathy with our movement.
Individuals of whatever race, nativity or creed, who believe in
the right of the woman citizen to protect her interests in
society by the ballot, are invited to be present. The
enfranchisement of women is emphatically a world movement. The
unanswerable logic upon which the movement is based and the
opposition which everywhere appears to combat that logic with its
array of traditions and prejudices are the same in all lands. The
evolution of the moveme