Excerpt from Report on the Quinquennial Meetings: Rapport De L'assemblee Quinquennal; Bericht Uber Die Generalversammlung; Rome 1914 At the very moment when this volume was on the point of publication, many of the countries represented by our National Councils were suddenly plunged into war, and the principles for which the International Council stands appear for the time being to have passed into oblivion. And yet even in this time of darkness, we know that our members scattered all over the world, still cherish the ideals which brought their representatives so close together at the Quinquennial Meeting in Rome last May, which now seems so far away. Those ideals have been very beautifully expressed in a message issued by the Religious Society of Friends, and which has already been circulated amongst our National Councils by the Convener of our International Standing Committee on Peace and Arbitration at my request. I therefore re-print this Message at the commencement of this record of the work of the International Council of Women at their Quinquennial Meeting of 1914, believing that it will find an echo in all our hearts and will remind us that the links which bind us together are still unbroken, and that even at this time we may all according to our opportunity, labour to strengthen them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."