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Shared Views of Czech Woman´s Movement with Views of Berta Suttner
Neudorflová, Marie L.
Peace movement, developing in the Czech woman’s movement in the last decade before World War I, was represented by a number of women, most important being Pavla Moudra. They appreciated that Berta Suttner had a courage to revolt against the glorification of war and she published articles on horrors of a war, based on her own particular experince. The essay deals with relevant articles in Czech woman’s jounals between 1905 and 1913, follows important anti-war argumentation, which included anti-war stands of most of great history personalities, inhuman impact of wars on women and children, as well as criticism of power elites, including the Catholic Church, which viewed the war as necessary but used it often as an escape solving social problems and for expansion. The most valuable results of these struggles were a Peace Reader (1914) and efforts to influence politics.
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