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Speech to the Young Men's Christian Association, January 18, 1920

Addams discusses the deportation of radicals and post-war efforts to address hunger. The speech was delivered at the Young Men's Christian Association at the University of Wisconsin.

Anti-radicalism Immigrants Labor Lectures

Speech to Trinity College, March 30, 1922 (summary)

Addams argues that the United States should offer economic and humanitarian aid to starving Europe.

Food Shortages Foreign Policy League of Nations Lectures Relief Efforts United States

Speech to Trinity College, March 30, 1922 (excerpts)

Addams exhorts Americans to help starving Europeans and discusses her experience there.

Lectures Peace Relief Efforts

The United States in Relation to World Problems, February 26, 1922

Addams discusses America's role in international relief work.

Foreign Policy Lectures Relief Efforts United States

Speech to the Decatur City Club, February 15, 1922

Addams spoke on America's role in international relief efforts and about the work done at Hull House.

Europe Famine Lectures Relief Efforts United States

Speech to the Unitarian Church, February 11, 1922 (excerpts)

Addams urges her audience to support the United States entry to the League of Nations.

Europe Foreign Policy Lectures Relief Efforts United States

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Speech to the Dairy Jubilee, January 30, 1922

Addams urges farmers to set up a corn exchange with Europe to open new markets and feed the starving.

Agriculture Economics Food Shortages International Affairs Lectures

Speech to the Waterloo Business Women's Club, January 16, 1922 (summary)

Addams speaks about conditions in Europe, relief efforts and the role of the League of Nations.

Internationalism League of Nations Lectures Peace Women

Jane Addams to the Chicago Tribune, December 1921 (summary)

The Chicago Tribune retracts a statement it published based on Addams's claim that she was misquoted.

Journalism Relief Efforts

Statement on Hunger and Crime, September 30, 1921

Addams argues that juvenile crime wave is caused by hunger and that relief will solve it.

Europe Food Shortages Juvenile Delinquency

Interview with the Guardian, September 15, 1921

Addams discusses her recent activities, the International Congress of Women and her hope that America joins the League of Nations.

Austria Internationalism League of Nations Peace Women

Speech to the Boston League of Women Voters, April 12, 1921 (Excerpt)

Addams spoke at a luncheon about the conditions in Europe after the war, especially the plight of children.

Child Welfare Lectures Relief Efforts

Maxim Gorky to Jane Addams, August 1922

Gorky tells Addams about the Russian famine.

Food Shortages Relief Efforts Requests Soviet Union

Feed the World and Have a League of Nations, February 19, 1921 (excerpts) Also known as Speech to the Rochester City Club, February 19, 1921 (excerpts)

Addams argued that America needs to offer humanitarian help to Europe.

Europe Food Shortages Foreign Policy Health Peace Relief Efforts

Feeding Europe and Saving America, February 18, 1921 (excerpts)

Addams spoke to the Reading Chamber of Commerce on the role that the United States could play in reducing the humanitarian crisis in Europe.

Europe Food Shortages Foreign Policy Hull-House Immigrants Peace Recreation Relief Efforts Settlement Movement

Speech to West Side Methodist Episcopal Church, May 2, 1920 (excerpts)

Addams discusses America's responsibility to help starving Europe.

Lectures Relief Efforts

Speech on European Relief, March 21, 1920

Addams makes the case for European relief to save starving children.

Child Welfare Democracy Europe Food Shortages Lectures Relief Efforts

Americanization, March 13, 1920

Addams discusses the way Americans should view immigrants and European relief efforts.

Education Food Shortages Immigrants Lectures Relief Efforts

The World's Food Supply and the World's Politics, November 9, 1919 (excerpt)

Addams discusses the food situation in Europe as a grim specter over any attempts at peace. This speech was delivered as part of the Social Welfare Conference at the Elm Street Church in Chillicothe, Missouri.

Food Shortages Lectures Relief Efforts World War I

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

Gertrud Baer to Jane Addams, November 21, 1923

Baer tells Addams about economic conditions in Europe and Women's International League for Peace and Freedom activities.

Economics Food Shortages Germany Japan Lectures Peace Politics Relief Efforts United States

Women's Part in This New World, May 16, 1919

Addams discusses the role of American women as economic factors in the post-World War I global economy.

Food Conservation Food Shortages Labor Relief Efforts World War I

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

Joseph Medill McCormick to Jane Addams and Charles Henry Wacker, January 25, 1923

McCormick donates $1,000 to Addams's charity for German hunger relief and promises twenty-four other donors.

Philanthropy Relief Efforts

New Russia Lecture Announcement, November 12, 1922

Details of Paxton Hibben's lecture on "New Russia" held by the American Committee for Relief of Russian Women and Children.

Food Shortages Lectures Russia

Ernest R. Reichmann to Jane Addams, October 30, 1922

Reichmann invites Addams to a speech on Russian relief efforts.

Food Shortages Relief Efforts Requests Russia

Statement on Quaker Food Commission Work, July 2, 1919

Addams discusses her plans to distribute food to German children.

Food Shortages Germany Relief Efforts

Official Report of Jane Addams and Dr. Alice Hamilton, September 1919

Addams and Hamilton report on their visit to Germany to see conditions after World War I.

Europe Food Shortages Germany Health Medicine Relief Efforts

Hilda Clark to Jane Addams, April 13, 1922

Clark sends Addams news of the activities of the Friends Relief Mission to alleviate food shortages in Austria.

Austria Food Shortages Internationalism Poland Relief Efforts Russia

Women's Part in this New World, April 10, 1919

Addams explores the role that American women will have in rebuilding the world and the economy.

Articles Economics Food Shortages Labor World War I

Ida Breitenbaum Müller to Jane Addams, April 9, 1920

Müller asks Addams to send food relief packages to her and other peace activists in Vienna.

Austria Food Shortages Help!Peace Requests

Otto Julius Merkel to Unknown, May 15, 1922

Merkel discusses the economic and political situation in Germany.

Economics Europe Food Shortages Germany Onsite Relief Efforts

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Woman as a Citizen, January 21, 1919 (excerpt)

Addams speaks to club women on their responsibilities as citizens to become involved in international affairs.

Food Shortages Lectures Social Welfare

Albert Joseph Kennedy to Jane Addams, March 18, 1922

Kennedy updates Addams on efforts to raise famine relief funds for Russia and asks her to prepare a paper for the international settlement conference.

Finances Food Shortages Relief Efforts Settlements Soviet Union

Jane Addams to Charles Henry Wacker, December 6, 1921

Addams sends Wacker a correction about reported statements she made on Germany's need for aid.

Food Shortages Germany Journalism Lectures Relief Efforts

Jane Addams to Charles Henry Wacker, December 6, 1921

Addams provides Wacker with the actual content of her statement on conditions in Germany that was misreported in the press.

Food Shortages Germany Lectures Relief Efforts

Russian Developments, September 6, 1921

Chicherin reports on efforts to relieve hunger in the Soviet Union.

Food Shortages Onsite Relief Efforts Soviet Union

Bernard De Vry to Jane Addams, October 21, 1921

De Vry sends Addams letters asking for help in raising funds to feed German children.

Food Shortages Germany Relief Efforts Requests

Hilda Clark to Jane Addams, August 16, 1921

Clark updates Addams on efforts for relief in Russia and Austria and complains about Lyman Brown's work with the American Relief Administration.

Austria Food Shortages Foreign Policy Relief Efforts Soviet Union

French Feed Poor, March 19, 1921

A report of a soup kitchen opened in Dusseldorf, Germany by the French Army to meet the needs of the German people.

Food Shortages France Germany International Affairs Labor

Abel Davis and Harry Pratt Judson to Jane Addams, June 16, 1921

Davis and Judson send Addams an appeal for assistance in feeding the Caucasus.

Caucasus Food Shortages International Affairs Relief Efforts

Report on Leipzig Schools, ca. March 1921

Hobhouse reports on the health of children in Leipzig schools.

Austria Children Food Shortages Relief Efforts

Emily Greene Balch to Jane Addams, February 21, 1921

Balch tells Addams how they are seeking to mitigate complaints in Austria about holding the Congress in a place where people are starving.

Conferences Food Shortages Peace

Emily Hobhouse to Alice Hamilton, January 5, 1921

Hobhouse tells Hamilton of her poor health and of the relief efforts in Europe.

Child Welfare Food Shortages Health International Affairs Relief Efforts Travels

Otto Julius Merkel to Jane Addams, December 25, 1920

Merkel tells Addams about the political situation in Germany.

Communism Food Shortages Germany Holidays Politics Relief Efforts

Harry Graf Kessler to Jane Addams, December 14, 1920

Kessler sends Addams his "True League of Nations" and a pamphlet on famine in Berlin (not found).

Food Shortages League of Nations Peace Relief Efforts Requests

Arnold Meyer to Jane Addams, March 28, 1920

Meyer thanks Addams for her concern, provides on update on the famine situation in Zurich, and requests aid for relief efforts.

Austria Child Welfare Finances Food Shortages Germany Help!Onsite Relief Efforts Requests

James Grover McDonald to Jane Addams, October 18, 1920

McDonald tells Addams that he is going to visit Berlin and Vienna before returning home and underscores the danger of the situation in Vienna and Germany.

Relief Efforts