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Jane Addams to Marion Tilden Burritt, March 27, 1919

Addams reminds Burritt that she was elected a delegate to the International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace.

Memberships Peace

The League of Nations, January 11, 1919 (excerpt)

Addams endorses the League of Nations at a speech to the Saturday Night Friendly Club in Indianapolis.

International Affairs Internationalism League of Nations Lectures

Alice Thacher Post to Jane Addams, December 14, 1918

Post accepts the nomination as an alternate delegate of Andrews for the Committee of Five.

Conferences Memberships Peace Requests

Charlotte Perkins Gilman to Jane Addams, ca. April 1918 (excerpt)

Gilman tells Addams about her views on peace and willingness to participate in the Congress After the War.

Germany Peace World War I

Alice Thacher Post to Anna Garlin Spencer, February 12, 1918

Post writes Spencer about the fallout from an controversial interview given by Robert LaFollette, Jr. which charged that George Creel was arranging peace speakers to appear for government programs.

Peace World War I

Anna Garlin Spencer to Lucia Ames Mead, November 1917

Spencer discusses future actions of the Woman's Peace Party.

Clubs Meetings Peace

Lucia Ames Mead to Jane Addams, September 25, 1917

Mead requests that the Woman's Peace Party Executive Board meeting be held after October 8th.

Meetings Peace Requests

Jane Addams to Margaret I. Nichols, September 17, 1917

Addams asks Nichols to send two letters to Gale and Slayden.

Meetings Peace Requests

Harriet Park Thomas to Jane Addams, ca. February 1915

Thomas asks Addams to phone Susanna Cocroft.

Peace Requests

Harriet Park Thomas to Jane Addams, February 10, 1917

Thomas and others request Addams's presence at a meeting.

Peace Requests

Paul Underwood Kellogg to Jane Addams, March 3, 1921

Kellogg asks Addams to help him secure an article on the situation of peace societies in America.

Peace Publishing Requests

Harriet Park Thomas to Woman's Peace Party, February 9, 1917

Thomas discusses the formation of the Emergency Peace Committee and points discussed at the meeting.

Legislation Meetings Memberships Peace Politics World War I

Woman's Peace Party, New York Branch to various Woman's Peace Party branches, February 1917

The New York Branch of the Woman's Peace Party wishes to create a network of information detailing the activities of other branches.

Peace Requests World War I

Suggestions for Work in War Time, May 1917

The Chicago branch of the Woman's Peace Party suggests that pacifists work on food conservation, child welfare, better conditions for soldiers, a defense of civil rights and plans for financing the war.

Child Welfare Civil Rights Food Shortages Military Peace World War I

Lella Faye Secor to various peace organizations, February 7, 1917

Secor sends a telegram to various peace organizations urging them to send delegates to an emergency peace federation.

Meetings Memberships Peace

A Program During War Time, April 1917

The Woman's Peace Party outlines steps that peace activists can take once war is declared.

Civil Rights Conscription Free Speech Morality Patriotism Peace Social Welfare World War I

International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace Acknowledgement Card, ca. March 1917

An acknowledgement card confirming the receipt of materials.

Peace

Jane Addams to Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs, October 26, 1919

Addams reassures Jacobs that no news of the newspaper problem reached America.

Peace Press Relief Efforts

Eleanor Daggett Karsten to Jane Addams, December 4, 1919

Karsten reports to Addams about the Women's Peace Party meeting and her plans regarding the WILPF.

Meetings Peace

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, September 30, 1919

Addams updates Wald on events in Washington and Philadelphia.

Peace Travels

Henry Ford Testimony in Ford-Tribune Libel Case, July 15, 1919

Ford answers questions about the use of the word "murderer" in regard to soldiers, crediting it to Addams.

Criticism Journalism Military Peace

The Second Annual Meeting of the Woman's Peace Party, December 9, 1916

Outlines the members, platforms and speakers at the December 8-10, 1916 meeting of the Woman's Peace Party.

Peace

Women to Confer on Plans to Further Lasting Peace, ca. October 1916

Announces the calling of a congress in Washington to influence public opinion on World War I.

Peace Public Opinion World War I

Response of Willem H. de Beaufort, August 1916

De Beaufort argues against propositions to negotiate territorial concessions without the input of the people who live there.

Diplomacy Peace World War I

Julia Grace Wales to Jane Addams, February 23, 1916

Wales updates Addams regarding the conference in Stockholm and asks her to wire information to Ford.

Conferences Democracy Peace Requests Sweden

Translation of ICWPP French Section Resolution, February 1916

The French Section of the ICWPP presents terms by which all allied governments can abide in an effort to establish a system for peace.

France Peace World War I

Statement of purpose of Collegiate Anti-Militarism League April 10, 1915

Karsten argues that the United States should take the lead in establishing international order.

Education Internationalism Military Peace World War I

David Starr Jordan to Jane Addams, March 13, 1916

Jordan tells Addams that the Ford peace work is failing and that a new more private effort might be needed.

Arbitration Peace World War I

Laura Frances Shipe Finch to Jane Addams, March 13, 1916

Finch asks Addams for literature on peace for a paper she is preparing.

Peace Requests

Jane Addams to the Woman's Peace Party. Committee of Thirty-Five, March 22, 1919

Addams explains the travel restriction that limit the number of American delegates to the International Congress of Women and asks who will be able to make the trip.

Peace Travels

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