Emma Wold

Overview

Emma Wold born Norway, SD September 29, 1871 (d. 1950). Internationalist expert on rights of women; Chair of WILPF 1921; founder Women's Committee on National Disarmament 1921; US technical adviser to Conference on Codification of International Law The Hague 1930.

Quotations

"[A]t a time when men felt the futility of doing anything on the question of disarmament, the women took hold. . . It rests with them to carry on the work so well begun." (to Emily Greene Balch, 1921; 1930 photo Library of Congress)