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Mererid Hopwood, Professor of Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth University

Ganrif yn ôl aeth menywod Cymru ati i apelio’n daer am heddwch byd – dyma eu stori

Chwefror 11 1924, ar fwrdd yr RMS Cedric: Saw Statue of Liberty glowing in the sunlight. Bitterly cold wind, bright sunshine. At lunch, a press man came to me and said: ‘Mrs Griffiths, I am from the press.’ ‘I have nothing to say,’ I said. ‘Oh!’ said he, ‘we know your story of the Women of Wales movement, we want only your photos – will you come to the top deck when you have finished?’ So [we] trotted up to the top deck first class, where we found four burly photographers awaiting us.

Mawrth 12 1924, Los Angeles: A letter was handed to me as I left the station – an anonymous letter, telling us to get out of the United States.

Gan mlynedd yn ôl, teithiodd Annie Hughes Griffiths o Gymru i’r Unol Daleithiau gan ymweld â golygfeydd ysblennydd o Efrog Newydd i Washington DC, ac o San Francisco i Los Angeles. Ond er bod dyddiadur ei thaith yn disgrifio rhai atyniadau y byddai rhywun yn disgwyl i’r teithiwr talog ymweld â nhw – Rhaeadrau Niagara, y Grand Canyon, Pont y Glwyd Aur (neu’r Golden Gate Bridge) a Chofeb Lincoln – nid gwyliau cyffredin oedd y siwrnai hon, ac nid teithwraig gyfffredin oedd Annie Hughes Griffiths.

Roedd hi’n rhan o ddirprwyaeth o bedair Cymraes oedd â’r nod o gludo’r hyn a ddisgrifiodd y South Wales Gazette fel “bwystfil o ddeiseb” (“monster petition”) un a fyddai’n ymestyn dros saith milltir pe bai’r llofnodion wedi eu gosod ochr yn ochr. Apêl oddi wrth fenywod Cymru at fenywod America am heddwch byd-eang oedd y ddeiseb hon.

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