among Belgian refugees would require many pages to describe.

Mrs. Fawcett and Mrs. Catt were preparing to send a deputation from
the Alliance to the Peace Conference to ask for a declaration for
woman suffrage when the National Woman Suffrage Association of France,
through its president, Mme. DeWitt Schlumberger, took the initiative
and called for the national associations of the allied countries to
send representatives to Paris to bring pressure on it. They were
cordially received by the members of the Conference and a
pronouncement in favor of the political equality of women and
eligibility to the secretariat was placed in the constitution of the
League of Nations, which attracted the attention of the world.

When the plan of holding the Congress of the Alliance at Berlin in
1915 had to be given up Holland sent an urgent invitation for that
year but its acceptance was not considered feasible. The Swedish
Auxiliary wanted it held at the time and place of the Peace Conference
but this was found to be inadvisable. The majority of the officers and
auxiliaries in the various countries wished to have a congress the
next spring after the Armistice but there proved to be insurmountable
obstacles. Toward the end of 1919 an invitation was accepted from the
suffrage societies in Spain to come to Madrid in 1920. Preparations
were under way when local opposition developed which made it necessary
to abandon the plan. Switzerland had already invited the congress and
it gladly went to Geneva.

In the report of Mrs. Coit, the treasurer, she said:

You will remember that at Budapest in 1913 a sum of about 2,000
pounds was raised, mostly by promises of yearly donations for the
period of two years. This sum was to finance headquarters and the
paper till we met in Berlin in 1915. In August, 1914, not even
all the first instalments had been received, and from then on,
owing to war conditions, it became impossible for some of our
biggest donors to redeem their pledges. By the beginning of 1917
we found ourselves with an empty exchequer and facing the
possibility of closing down our work. It was then that help came
from our auxiliary in the United States. Mrs. Catt, with the help
of her many devoted friends, raised a sum of $4,333, which was
placed at our disposal and has enabled the Alliance to keep
going. When speaking of the United States' help I wish to make
spe