The Anglo-German Friendship Committee was founded in part by the first woman to solely earn what honor?
Anglo-German Friendship Committee The Anglo-German Friendship Committee was a London-based association, founded to promote improvement of cordial relations between the Great Britain and Germany. The Committee was launched on 1 December 1905, at a meeting in Caxton Hall. Its founders included the banker Lord Avebury and Lord Courtney. The German ambassador in London and the British ambassador in Berlin supported the committee. Bertha von Suttner (who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in the same year) helped found the committee. F. W. Fox was the honourable secretary of the committee.
Edith Ballantyne Edith Ballantyne (born 1922) is a Czech-born, Canadian citizen, who has been a prominent member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) since 1969. At that time, she became the executive secretary of the international organisation, based in Geneva, Switzerland, serving in that capacity for twenty-three years. Between 1992 and 1998, she served as the International President of the organisation. In 1995, she was honored as the recipient of the Gandhi Peace Award.