| Description | In this letter addressed from Salzburg Princess Louise Sophie refers to a forthcoming meeting of women campaigning for peace in Vienna which Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury was due to attend. The Princess's letter expresses her strong feelings about the important role of women in campaigns for peace, stating that it was a cause which 'every woman in the world would want to partake in.' The Princess remarks that she had written an appeal to German women 'asking them to join hands with all women in the world, in order to fight for peace and try to thwart those dreadful warmakers'. She adds 'if women over the whole world would join in such a fight, they could grow to be a force!'
The letter also includes intriguing comments on the state of Europe in the late 1930s. Princess Louise Sophie writes:
'But now, when the whole world seems to have gone mad and all those that manufacture weapons to kill and cripple men, bringing sorrow to so many families in all countries and wretchedness everywhere, shall we women really quietly look on'.
This letter reveals that the Princess did not know Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury personally, however, she wrote to her in the hope of enlisting Taylor Cadbury's support for her cause, asking her to 'try to induce more and more women over the whole world to join in our fight against the madness of war'. |