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THE CONGRESS AT HELSINKI The International Council of Women holds its congresses every three years. Each of these con gresses becomes an important date in the life of organized wo manhood the world over. It is be ing dedicated to some single posi tive theme in women’s life. Since the International Council of Wo men is composed of National Council of Women and had then countries, ithe preparation for the congress is rousing- the woman kind throughout the entire free world. The Ukrainian women had like wise been members of the Inter national Council of Women. Fol lowing the World War I, after Ukraine had declared its indepen dence, the Ukrainian women had formed their Ukrainian National Council of Women and had then joined the International Council of Women. At that time their rep resentative, Mrs. Hanna Chika- lenko Keller took part in the con gress art Oslo, capital of No-rway. Tlhere had also been a Ukrainian rainian Women's League Detroit Branches arranged to have an au dience w-ith Madame Mesta and present her with a gift of two Ukrainian figurines as a token of their appreciation and gratitude of her wonderful sympathetic ac count of her travel in the Ukraine and her courage and forthright ness in presenting a truthful ac count of what she found behind the Iron Curtain. Mrs. Anastasia Volker was in strumental in arranging the nec- es'sary details that such an audi ence be possible. A committee composed of Mrs. A. Volker, I. Kozachenko, K. Chomiiak, O. Shuster, I. Dragin- da, T. Dovhan, A. Bilouis, E. Sa- poroshets and P. Budzol met with Madame Mesta after her lecture on Monday, Feb. 8. Madame Mesta in a communi cation the following day, -express ed her appreciation for the gra cious gesture of the Detroit Bran ches of the Ukrainian National Women's League of America. delegation at the next congress in Washington, D. C. (1925). It was made up of two delegates, Mrs. Hanna Chikalenko Keller repre senting the Ukrainian Council of Women, from Europe, and Mrs. Helen Lototsky from New York. Mrs. Julia Jarema was present as a guest. At the congress in Wash ington there had been «sounded some inimical voices in reference to legality of Ukrainian participa tion in the congress. However, the Ukrainian delegation succeed ed in defending their position. Subsequently this problem re appeared and in accordance with the rules of bylaw’s of the IC of W the Ukrainian Council of Wo men was rejected in 1929. The Ukrainian women, never theless, have been continuing their activities in the Ukrainian Council of Women and have been folio wing the work of the Inter national Council of Women. The suffragist movement was evolv ing and growing ever stronger and the Ukrainian women were presenting their problem's at the congresses of other international women’s organizations, like the International Women’s Alliance, The Ukrainian women are to celebrate in March 1954 a remark able jubilee. Madam Olena Kisi- levska, the president of the World Federation of Ukrainian Women’s Organizations (WFUWO), is reaching her 85 years of age. O'n this date the Ukrainian women scattered all over the free world, will j o yousi у greet their renown ed leader who at present resides in Ottawa, Canada, and is enjoy ing her unfaded physical and spi ritual vigor. This jubilee is linked with an other date in the life of Ukrainian organized womanhood. In 1954 seventy years have elapsed since the first Ukrainian women’s so ciety had been organized which date is considered by Ukrainian Women’s Guild, the World Move ment of Mothers, organized after World War II, and others. Still the Ukrainian women have been able to get into the In ternational Council of Women, through another door. In the countries of their settlement they are taking part in the National Councils of Women, and this has already o ecu red in the United States, Canada and Australia. Within the delegations from these countries the Ukrainian women have been delegates to congresses of the International Council of Women. This year Mrs. Helen Lotot sky, president of the Ukrainian National Women’s League of Am erica, has been invited as a mem ber of the United States delega tion. Surely she will inform ap propriately the participants in this international convention of the actions of Ukrainian women immigrants in the free world. L. B. women as the begining of the Ukrainian feminist movement in Ukraine. The venerated notabili ty, who is presiding over WFU WO, had been in 1884 a member of this.first feminist organization. She was then a 15 year old school girl, yet she was already interest ed in the emancipation movement. For 70 years Olena Kisilevska has been marching in the first ranks. She has been working as a civic worker, a journalist and a parlia mentarian, having trodden all the stages of women’s suffragist cru sade, finally to be cone its leader. This is why the Ukrainian or ganized womanhood couples both these jubilees into one honoring in their leader the labors
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