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THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLORED WOMEN

From the
Office of the President:

To NACW women, and to all women, I extend greetings and good wishes.

Like the multitude of the heavenly host almost two thousand years ago, I say at this Christmas time, "on earth peace, good-will toward men."

Not only do I wish for you that peace and that good-will, but I admonish all women to reorganize their thinking and their plans to do something new about securing them.

The horrors of two world wars and the hunger and turmoil of an interim peace have not taught men to live together in peace.  An analysis of man's last and most disastrous conflict, and an observation of the continued stalemate of his present effort to bring about peace, leaves little hope that man can survive his own will to destroy.

The one last hope for survival seems to lie in the determination of women to establish permanent peace and to rebuild society with assured protection from destruction for their children and their children's children.  Women of the National Association of Colored Women have been a part of all efforts for social readjustment for the past fifty years.  With my greetings, I send to you an appeal that we continue our cooperation with all groups society.  I appeal to you to continue to organize your own community and to educate yourself and every woman in your community in the needs of your neighborhood, and in the new techniques to meet those needs.

I appeal to you to "organize, to educate, to cooperate."  And with all this, I send you the best wishes for a New Year of action and the hope that 1947 will find women of color stepping side by side with all the other women of the world toward the goal of permanent peace and the continues preservation of mankind.

Christine S. Smith
President