Andrea Hofer Proudfoot

Overview

Andrea Hofer Proudfoot born March 2, 1865 (d. 1949). Children’s writer, active in kindergarten movement. Sponsored Disarm! Disarm!, the adaptation of Bertha von Suttner’s Die Waffen Nieder, and Suttner's US tour, 1913; founded Von Suttner League and League for International Amity 1913. Wrote Internationalism, 1913. Delegate to Women's Peace Congress, 1915. Supported postwar aid to Austria.

Quotations

On the Hague conference: “The hour is ripe for the peoples of this war-burdened Europe are so desperate over the agony and uncertainty in which they are constantly kept by the greedy ruling class that they are ready for the subject of disarmament as never before. . . And the women must kindle the sentiment among families and the masses. . . the women are the natural propagators. . . If we would down the war spirit at home and kill out the fear of war attack at home, we must kill out the spirit of hate from this side, where our war advisers so solemnly warn us our enemy is lurking.” (Advocate of Peace, 1915, vol. 75, p. 139)