1940: (Ideas Still Poorly Understood — Madeleine’s Assessment of the LFAS’s Work from Several Years Before Remaining Relevant, Speaking on Behalf of the Orga…

1940: (Ideas Still Poorly Understood — Madeleine’s Assessment of the LFAS’s Work from Several Years Before Remaining Relevant, Speaking on Behalf of the Organization She Writing “[We] Recognize That the Ideas [We] Pronounce Are Still Poorly Understood” and “[We] Do Not Yet Have the Authority Necessary to Impose These Ideas Nor the Capacity Necessary to Support It” — While the Tone Communicated Reflection and Aspirations It Also Articulated Loss Perhaps for How Far the Women Imagined Their Cause Would Be After a Decade): Perhaps frustratingly, Madeleine’s assessment of the LFAS’s work from several years before remained relevant. Speaking on behalf of the organization, she wrote that they recognized that the ideas they pronounced were still poorly understood, and that they did not yet have the authority necessary to impose these ideas, nor the capacity necessary to support them. While Madeleine’s tone at the end of the 1930s communicated reflection and aspirations for the movement, it also articulated loss, perhaps for how far the women imagined their cause would be after a decade — the confession was rare in the archive of political movements: an organization admitting, in print, that its own ideas had not yet found their audience.