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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

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

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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)