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Launched on 23 May 1923 at a meeting held at the University of Aberystwyth, this appeal called on the women of the United States of America to urge their government to join the League of Nations (the forerunner of the United Nations) in the hope of achieving a lasting peace following the horrors of the First World War. Over the next five months, the signatures of 390,296 women were collected in a major door-to-door campaign, reaching all parts of Wales and all echelons of society.

The reams of signed pages were placed in a bespoke carved oak chest and presented in New York in 1924 to the women of the United States by a delegation of three women, led by Annie Hughes-Griffiths, an alumna of the University and Chair of the Welsh League of Nations Union at the time. It was later presented to the President of the USA in the White House.