when the plan of holding the congress of the alliance at berlin in 1915 had to be given up holland sent an urgent invitation for that year but its acceptance was not considered feasible. the swedish auxiliary wanted it held at the time and place of the peace conference but this was found to be inadvisable. the majority of the officers and auxiliaries in the various countries wished to have a congress the next spring after the armistice but there proved to be insurmountable obstacles. toward the end of 1919 an invitation was accepted from the suffrage societies in spain to come to madrid in 1920. preparations were under way when local opposition developed which made it necessary to abandon the plan. switzerland had already invited the congress and it gladly went to geneva.