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Mrs. Parker Urges Entering League, March 22, 1925

The Herald reports on Cornelia Parker's lecture at the Ford Hall Forum, which supports Jane Addams against the accusations of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Criticism Foreign Policy League of Nations Lectures United States

Charge Jane Addams Silent as U.S. Flag Was Belittled, ca. March 18, 1925

The Herald reports an attack on Addams at the Daughters of the American Revolution meeting.

Anti-radicalism Criticism Meetings Patriotism Peace

Elaine Goodale Eastman to Jane Addams, March 25, 1925

Eastman sends Addams news coverage of an attack on her and the WILPF made at the Massachusetts conference of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Anti-radicalism Criticism Patriotism Peace

Martha Helen Elliott to Boston Herald Editor, ca. March 18, 1925

Elliott corrects the reporting in the Herald regarding the International Congress of Women and Jane Addams.

Anti-radicalism Conferences Criticism Peace

Martha Helen Elliott to Jane Addams, March 23, 1925

Elliott sends Addams a protest she wrote to the editor of the the Boston Herald over the attacks by the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Anti-radicalism Criticism Peace

Sophonisba P. Breckinridge to Jane Addams, January 26, 1925

Breckinridge tells Addams about the Conference on the Cause and Cure of War and the Child Labor amendment.

Conferences Criticism Peace

Reminiscence on Theodore Roosevelt, May 1925 (fragment)

Addams recalls Theodore Roosevelt's visits to Hull-House and told a story of losing her hat during one trip.

Criticism Hull-House Hull-House Visits Journalism

Nathan Crary Shiverick to Jane Addams, May 26, 1924

Shiverick criticizes Addams and the peace movement for operating in theory to end war rather that focusing on the deterrent of preparedness.

Criticism International Affairs Military Pacifism Peace Preparedness World War I

Carrie Chapman Catt to Jane Addams, May 26, 1927

Catt asks Addams for information so that she can publish a defense of peace activists vilified by the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Anti-radicalism Criticism Peace Public Opinion Requests Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

Jane Addams to Carrie Chapman Catt, May 31, 1927

Addams replies to Catt's questionnaire but discourages Catt from trying to fight the Daughters of the American Revolution's attacks on her and the peace movement.

Clubs Criticism Peace

Jane Addams to Carrie Chapman Catt, January 3, 1925

Addams tells Catt that the attacks against WILPF have been answered by Emily Balch and the World, and that she does not take them seriously.

Anti-radicalism Conferences Criticism Peace

Jane Addams to Helen Willard Carrett Travis, June 5, 1924

Addams tells Travis that the DAR's condemnation of the WILPF is not the work of the national organization, but only of some local chapters.

Anti-radicalism Criticism Peace

Jane Addams to Mary Guthrie Kilbreth, May 7, 1924

Addams tells Kilbreth that the WILPF have never demanded any oaths of its members.

Criticism Peace

Mary Guthrie Kilbreth to Jane Addams, April 28, 1924

Kilbreth accuses Addams and the WILPF of lying when they say that there is no pledge or vow taken by its members. She indicates that a pledge to refuse to aid war efforts is unpatriotic.

Criticism Patriotism Peace