Mia Leche Lofgren

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Overview

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Mia Leche Löfgren (née Ebba Leche) born Lund, Sweden October 10, 1878 (d. 1966). Swedish pacifist author and journalist. Biographer of famous pacifists Ellen Key and Carl von Ossietsky. Vice-President of Swedish Women’s Peace League. Delegate to Women's Peace Congress, 1915, chronicled in her At the Women’s Congress, 1917. Reported on the League of Nations in Federation of Nations, 1925. Co-founder of Committee for Prisoners of War in Siberia.

Quotations

On the Hague Conference: “[F]or these women there did not seem to exist any national counterparts, they knew and thought as a world citizen. And from everyone's lips the words sounded: we do not want any other benefits for our country than those which can be won without the losses of other countries, for us exists no word for victory, as long as it means defeat to our neighbors.” (Inga-Brita Melin, Lysistrata’s Daughters, p. 145; photo wikipedia)