Peace and Freedom also used these ideas to appeal to women as one of their early
membership cards stated, ‘We protest, as guardians of life, against the sacrifice of our
children in the attempts to settle international disputes by violence and bloodshed, and
undertake to do all in our power to further the settlement of such disputes by reasonable
and peaceful means’ . 32 This emphasis on the humanitarian aspect of war allowed women to
draw on the idea of social maternalism and apply these ideals of family welfare to the wider
community. 33
The interwar period undoubtably saw an increased amount of female activism in the
field of international relations. International questions reached the general public through
actions of the League of Nations Union and therefore saw an increase of female
p erspectives being considered within this international discourse. Women’s ability to use
the ways in which society differentiated them from their male counterparts, worked to their
advantage, arguing that they were able to provide a different view than men. Welsh female
activism saw contributions to many big international disputes of the interwar period, such
as the debated membership of the United States and the Kellog-Briand Pact. Alongside
these contributions to big international discussions, they also contributed to the cultural
idea of peace, with the establishment of Daffodil Days. Welsh women made many crucial
contributions to the new field of international cooperation, in a period which saw their first
involvement in the political world. Welsh women and the Welsh League of Nations Union
contributed in many ways to the attempts at international peace and created traditions like
‘neges hedd ac ewyllus rhydd’ which still exist in the present day. These women have
32 Williams, p. 186. 33 McCarthy, The British People and the League of Nations , p. 194.
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