The New York Times/1918/11/11/To Shield Women in War
TO SHIELD WOMEN IN WAR.
Committee Formed to Advocate International Regulations.
The Committee for the Protection of Women under International Law was organized at a meeting held yesterday in Plymough Church, Brooklyn. The Rev. Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis, pastor of the church, presided, and the Chairman of the committee is Mrs. William C. Beecher, wife of Colonel William C. Beecher, son of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. Mrs. Beecher said that the committee was formed at the request of a million women of France, who had already organized. The speakers included Sergeant Ruth Farnam, Mme. Avria St. Croix, Signora Amy Bernardy, and Miss Isabelle Van der Clite. In a resolution adopted it was said:
"We demand that whatever in the present war would or might stand as a precedent for these dangerous villainies in any future wars be met and broken by the counterprecedent of trial before an international tribunal and punishment as a criminal of every officer, soldier, or civilian of either of the Central Powers, or of any of their allies, who shall be accused, whether as principal or accomplice, of any offence against a woman."