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WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE

PAX

FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM

Founded in The Hague in 1915.

BRITISH SECTION

29,GREAT JAMES STREET,LON.WC1N 3ES. Tel. 01.242.4817

The Rt. Hon. Dr. David Owen, Foreign Office, S.W.1

Dear Dr. Owen,

6 Southview Drive Worthing,

Sussex BN11 HU

I expect you will have had many letters deploring the hanging of the two black Bermudans after your efforts to prevent this and we too would like strongly to support you.

international Headquarters

Centre International,

1 rue de Varembe, 1211 Geneva 20,Switzerland.

Consultative Status B with United Nations ECOSOC UNESCO Special Consul- tative Relations with FAO ILO and UNICEF

PRESIDENT

Mrs Agnes Stapledon CHAIRMAN

Mrs Ruth Osborn HON.SECRETARY Mrs Carmel Budiardjo HON.TREASURER Mrs Ella Simpson EDITOR OF "PEACE AND FREEDOM" Mrs Barbara Coppock GENERAL SECRETARY Miss Rose-Marie Adams

We know you are doing all you can to prevent hanging being carried out anywhere within British jurisdiction and we do wish you every success so that it cannot happen again, especially in this case with the harm it can do in worsening race relations.

DACK.

Yours sincerely

Margaret Prosser

Margaret Prosser

Current Affairs Committee W.I.L.P.F.

2) HK & Gen Dept tomply. Dept-tomply. Sw9|1

folio 35 represents an adequate reply to this letter.

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RECEIVED (* **RTY NO. 51 10 JAN 1978

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