According to their program, they met "to improve the unparalleled opportunity of interpreting to one another the women of the nations in whose hands will rest in increasing measure the formative influences in the building of the new world.

[1] The committee consisted of women from the three larger Allied countries, such as Julie Siegfried, Avril de Sainte-Croix, Mrs. Édouard de Billy, Comtesse d'Haussonville, Aline Poincaré Boutroux, the Marchioness of Hartington, Miss Ethel Knight, Comtesse Helene Goblet d'Alviella, Mildred Barnes Bliss, Edith Wharton, Isabel Stevens Lathrop, and Edith Roosevelt.

[4] There were women present officially representing the nations at war: British, French, American, as well as Belgian, Italian, Romanian, Polish, Serbian, and Montenegrin.

[4] The British Blue Triangle was represented by Alexandrina McArthur “Rena” Carswell Datta (1886–1978), the Marchioness of Hartington and Miss Ethel Knight.

[1] The 75 American YWCA secretaries in their blue gray uniforms were present to represent the women of the United States who sent them to France.

[5] On 22 August, as Lord Derby, British Ambassador to France, who presided, read the roll call of organizations, each delegation rose en masse.

The two thousand women, led by an American colored regimental band rose and sang, in French and English, "The Battle Hymn of the Republic".