High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Women`s Peace Society was created on September 12, 1919, when a group of women that included Fanny Garrison Villard, Elinor Byrns, Katherine Devereaux Blake, and Caroline Lexow Babcock resigned from the executive committee of the Women`s International League for Peace and Freedom because they found "a fundamental lack of unity in the membership as a whole and in the executive committee".