Clasina Albertina Kluyver

Overview

Clasina Albertina Kluyver-De Jong Van Beek En Donk born Breda, North Brabant, Netherlands September 23, 1884 (d. 1974). Dutch antiwar activist and international relations expert. Feminist suffragist. Authored book on founding of the League of Nations, 1919; book on arbitration and conciliation, 1928. Took part in international women’s conference, 1913. Early staff of League of Nations foreign affairs. Dutch deputy to the League of Nations, 1929. Postwar head of UN department of Netherlands Foreign Ministry. Delegate of Anti-War League to International Women's Congress, where her amendment advocating including men in peacemaking was rejected, 1915.

Quotations

“We must, however, not forget the existence of the numerous peace movements all over the world, consisting of men and women together. As we are aware of the fact, that the primary necessity we want for our peace movement is concentration of forces, I think, that anyone who takes the responsibility of starting a new action for peace, must have a very good reason to do so.” (Bericht Rapport, p. 162)