Marta Vergara
/Overview
Marta Vergara born Santiago, Chile January 2, 1898 (d. 1995). Chilean feminist pioneer; author and journalist. Communist; anti-imperialist opponent of US military intervention. Delegate to League of Nations. Represented Chile at Conference on Codification of International Law, 1930.
Quotations
“Today before the danger of world conflagration we must re-initiate with new vigor the fight against war.” (Aug. 17, 1936 to Doris Stevens, Katherine Marino, in Miescher, ed., Gender, Imperialism, p. 270; c. 1931 photo joseline-linko)