Rosika Schwimmer, internationally known pacifist, women’s suffrage leader, diplomat and an early advocate of world government, died here yesterday at the age of 70.
Born in Budapest, Mrs. Schwimmer achieved national and international fame first as a leader and organizer of Hungarian women’s labor and voting movements. During the first World War, Mrs. Schwimmer persuaded Henry Ford to back the famous Peace ### plan which was aimed at bringing about an armistice between the belligerents by the intervention of the neutral countries, led by the United States.
After leaving Hungary, where she served as a member of the Karoly Government which replaced the Austro-Hungarian monarchy at the end of the war, Mrs. Schwimmer nettled in the U.S. but was refused citizenship in 1929 because she would not pledge to up arms in defense of the U.S. While the Karoly Government was still in power, Schwimmer was appointed Hungarian Minister to Switzerland, learning the first woman diplomat in modern history.
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