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A New Peace Conference Resolutions, December 9, 1922

The Conference proposes a series of resolutions calling for revision of the peace terms of World War I.

International Affairs League of Nations Peace Poverty World War I

A Report on the Upper Middle Class in Vienna, January 1920

Vernon reports on food shortages, inflation, and wage stagnation in Vienna.

Austria Economy Food Conservation Food Shortages Poverty Relief Efforts

Address to the Illinois State Conference of Charities and Corrections, October 24, 1919 (excerpts)

Addams discusses the impact of housing and food shortages in Europe on children's health.

England Food Shortages France Germany Housing Lectures Relief Efforts

Address to the Social Workers' Club of Detroit, January 25, 1920 (excerpts)

Addams describes the conditions in Europe after the war.

Food Shortages Housing Lectures Relief Efforts

Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs to Jane Addams, October 26, 1922

Jacobs urges Addams to attend the Hague Conference and use her influence to help the situation in Europe.

Conferences Europe Peace Relief Efforts Requests

Alice Salomon to Jane Addams, September 18, 1922

Salomon asks Addams for help and advice to keep her Berlin Social School open in devastating financial time.s.

Education Germany Relief Efforts Requests

Alice Salomon to Jane Addams, September 18, 1923

Salomon asks Addams to help the Berlin Social School, which may have to close.

Education Germany Help!Onsite Requests Social Work

Andrea Hofer Proudfoot to Jane Addams, November 6, 1922

Proudfoot asks Addams about the legal cases regarding Austrian funds held by the United States and discusses Austrian relief efforts.

Austria Conferences Food Shortages Health Peace Relief Efforts

Anna Goldschmidt Edinger to Jane Addams, January 22, 1921

Edinger asks Addams to help German emigrees who will be settling in Chicago.

Germany Immigrants Requests

Anna Lindemann to Jane Addams, April 16, 1921

Lindemann tells Addams about the plight of Germany and asks help employing German women.

Education Germany Help!Labor Onsite Relief Efforts Requests Unemployment World War I

Annie Frederika Furuhjelm to Emily Greene Balch, January 3, 1920 (excerpt)

A snippet of a letter Furuhjelm wrote Balch on support for disarmament in Finland.

Criticism Disarmament Finland Peace

Carolena Morris Wood to Jane Addams, July 1919

Wood tells Addams about conditions in Germany and hopes to see her before she heads back to America.

Food Shortages Germany Relief Efforts Travels

Charles Alfred Cripps to James Grover McDonald, February 11, 1921

Cripps tells McDonald that he believes the terms of the Versailles treaty will lead to dire economic consequences.

Economy Germany Peace

Conference on Economic Recovery and World Peace, June, 1921

The proposed program for conference on recovery after World War I.

Conferences Disarmament England Internationalism League of Nations Peace Religion

David Starr Jordan to Jane Addams, January 13, 1920

Jordan asks Addams for copies of her interviews with European leaders.

Food Shortages Holidays Requests World War I

Emil Abderhalden to Harry Gideon Wells, October 15, 1919

Abderhalden seeks support for German children suffering from starvation.

Child Welfare Finances Food Shortages Germany Relief Efforts Requests

Emily Greene Balch to Jane Addams, December 13, 1919

Balch tells Addams that she is moving Women's International League for Peace and Freedom funds to an American bank for fears about the European economy.

Economy Europe Finances Onsite Peace

Emily Greene Balch to Jane Addams, October 6, 1922

Balch updates Addams about international politics and Women's International League for Peace and Freedom plans for conference and summer schools.

Conferences Economics Education Health International Affairs Peace Politics

Emily Greene Balch to Jane Addams, September 17, 1922

Balch tells Addams of decisions made at the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Executive Committee meeting regarding a December meeting, summer schools and staffing.

Conferences Education Help!Internationalism Peace

Emily Greene Balch to Stephen Pierce Hayden Duggan, January 13, 1921

Balch asks Duggan for help establishing a commission to investigate the economic situation in Germany.

Foreign Policy Germany Government Relief Efforts

European Opinion Relative to an International Organization, November 20, 1921 (excerpts)

Addams discusses her impressions of Europe and the Washington Naval Conference at two speeches in St. Louis.

Austria Child Welfare Conferences Diplomacy Disarmament Europe Food Shortages Peace

Feed the World and Save the League, November 24, 1920

Addams argues that international organizations should include humanitarian goals as well as political ones in order to win public support. This was also given as a speech to the Labor Forum in Detroit on Nov. 28, 1920.

Food Shortages Internationalism League of Nations Lectures Peace Relief Efforts

Feed the World and Save the League, November 24, 1920

Addams argues that international organizations should include humanitarian goals as well as political ones in order to win public support. This was also given as a speech to the Labor Forum in Detroit on November 28.

Internationalism Peace Philanthropy Relief Efforts Russia