It is the duty of every woman to work for peace and above all to pray for peace – especially nurses, who can exert a profound influence on those with whom they come into contact. We hope to see politicians of all countries come and live in International House and Bedford College so that they might also learn to see each other’s problems and points of view and recognise the common humanity of every race. This would be the quickest means of establishing peace.

With the outbreak of World War Two, we have had to move the ICN office to Connecticut – just in time, as the ICN office in London was bombed in 1941. We have faith in the nursing profession and will work to re-establish contact once this terrible war is over.