[Women, Equal Rights for. ] “Annual Meeting of Women’s Consultative Committee of the League of Nations.” Information Bulletin from Committee of Representatives of Women’s International Organizations, created in accordance with a resolution of the Council of the League of Nations, Hotel de Russie, Geneva, September 29, 1936.

• Four leaves, 13″x 8.5″. Mimeographed (?) Printed on cheap newsprint. Paper browned and brittle, and heavily chipped at top. Fair condition. 10 or so short tears are repaired on reverse with archival Japanese tissue paper. NO copies located in WorldCat. Rare. Provenance: Library of Congress, with their rubber stamp on the back of leaf 4. $500

This is a resolution presented to the League of Nations in September 29, 1936 (addressed to the president of the Seventeenth Session of the Assembly of the League of Nations, Saavedra Lamas [Argentina, 187801959]) on the subject of adopting equal rights for women in the League’s covenants. This was a combined meeting of the International Council of Women, Louise C.A. Van Eeghan (Holland) and Renee Girod (Switzerland); Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Madeleine G. Doty with Lola Maverick Lloyd, (USA); Inter American Commission of Women, Abby Scott Baker and Alice Paul (USA), with Leonor Cespedes (Columbia). Also: Equal Rights International, Juanita Frances (England), Helene Granitsch (Austria), Linda P. Littlejohn (Australia), Lilian von Matsch (Austria); and the All Asian Conference of Women, Rosa Welt Straus (Palestine).