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As a result of a visit from Mr. Richard three
years later, there was founded at the Hague,
Sept. 8th, 1870, “The Dutch Peace Society,”
by Mr. Van Eck and others. Later in the
same year ten similar associations sprang up
in the Hague, Amsterdam, Zwolle, Groningen
and other places. One of these, the “Women’s
Peace Society,” in Amsterdam, under the
leadership of Miss Bergendahl, deserves to be
named, on account of its advanced character.
In 1871 this union took the name of the “Peace
Society’s National Union for Holland,” and in
1878 of the “Peace League of the
Netherlands.” Its present name is the “Universal
Peace Association for the Netherlands”
(Algemeen Nederlandsch Vredesbond). For
seventeen years Mr. Geo. Belinfante as the
indefatigable secretary of this Union. He died
in 1888, and was succeeded by M. C. Bake, of
the Hague.
In 1871 the Belgian Association was
formed at Brussels, and at the same time a
local association at Verviers. Later on, April
15th, 1889, was founded the Belgian branch of
the International Arbitration and Peace
Association (Fédération Internationale de l’Arbitrage
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