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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)

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

Europe Food Shortages Foreign Policy Health Peace Relief Efforts

Feed the World and Save the League, 1920 (fragment)

Addams discusses the League of Nations plans to reconstruct Europe after the war.

England Food Shortages Foreign Policy Germany Internationalism League of Nations Lectures Peace Relief Efforts

Feed the World and Save the League, November 21, 1920 (summary)

Addams spoke to the Ethical Culture Society, urging support for relief efforts and for the League of Nations.

Internationalism League of Nations Lectures 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 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

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

Florence Sachs Rauh to Jane Addams, ca. July 1920

Rauh promises Addams to send a check from the American Woman's Emergency Committee.

Relief Efforts

Florence Sachs Rauh to Jane Addams, July 2, 1920

Rauh asks Addams for a receipt for a donation which was mistakenly sent to Hull-House.

Finances Relief Efforts

Florence Taylor to Jane Addams, July 30, 1920

Taylor asks Addams about setting up an executive committee for the American Relief for Russian Women and Children group.

Relief Efforts

Freda Kirchwey to Jane Addams, June 8, 1920

Kirchwey sends Addams a fragment of an article regarding German relief efforts and offers further publicity.

Germany Relief Efforts

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

Fridtjof Nansen to Catherine Elizabeth Marshall, September 29, 1921

Nansen thanks Marshall for the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom's support for work done in Russia.

Peace Relief Efforts Soviet Union

Fritz Max Otto Neumann to Jane Addams, May 9, 1921

Neumann asks Addams to donate to help provide medical care for Viennese children.

Austria Onsite Relief Efforts Requests

George Vladimir Lomonosoff to Raïssa Rosen Lomonosoff, March 20, 1920

Lomonosoff writes to his wife about his health and asks her to give Addams an appeal to aid Russian children.

Health Relief Efforts Requests Soviet Union

Germans O.K.: Jane Addams, December 3, 1921

The newspaper reports that Addams says Germany no longer needs relief help.

Food Shortages Germany 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

Grace Abbott to Jane Addams, June 9, 1920

Abbott tells Addams that prospects of support for a Lithuanian university are dim given political conditions.

Education Lithuania Relief Efforts

Gustave Ador to Catherine Elizabeth Marshall, September 30, 1921

Ador invites Marshall to join the International Rescue Committee, set up to coordinate Russian relief efforts.

Peace Relief Efforts Requests Soviet Union

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

Harry Rubens to William Fisher Byron, January 9, 1920

Rubens tells Byron that his German relief society is no longer active and points him to the German-American Relief Society.

Immigrants Relief Efforts

Henirich Lammasch to George Davis Herron, October 21, 1919 (excerpts)

Lammasch discusses the poor conditions in Austria and solutions.

Austria League of Nations Relief Efforts

Herbert Clark Hoover to Jane Addams, November 13, 1919

Hoover's response to the English memorial.

Criticism Food Shortages Relief Efforts

Herbert Clark Hoover to John Work Garrett, June 25, 1919

Hoover sends Addams a letter of introduction to the American ambassador to the Netherlands.

Germany Government Relief Efforts Requests

Hermann Wollenberger to Bernard DeVry, October 17, 1921

Wollenberger tells De Vry that he supports Addams's request to aid Anna Lindmann and has sent her letter to German-American newspapers.

Germany Journalism Relief Efforts Requests

Hilda Clark to Albert Ross Hill, August 31, 1922

Clark asks Hill for help in raising money for relief efforts in Eastern Europe, especially in Poland and Russia.

Austria Finances Germany Poland Relief Efforts Requests Russia

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

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

Hilda Clark to Jane Addams, September 1, 1922

Clark updates Addams on the challenge of raising funds for continued relief work in Europe.

Relief Efforts Requests Travels

How to Feed the World, February 13, 1919

Addams' address to the American Women's Victory Dinner uses the end of the war to urge for greater international collaboration to ensure food supplies. The speech was given at the Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, DC.

Charity Ethics Food Shortages Internationalism Lectures Relief Efforts World War I

How to Feed the World, February 13, 1919

Addams' address to the American Women's Victory Dinner uses the end of the war to urge for greater international collaboration to ensure food supplies. The speech was given at the Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, DC.

Charity Ethics Food Shortages Internationalism Lectures Onsite Public Health Relief Efforts World War I

Interview About the League of Nations, September 30, 1921

Addams discusses the plight of Europe and asks the women of America to help.

Food Shortages Internationalism League of Nations Peace Relief Efforts

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

Isabel Barnett to Jane Addams, September 8, 1920

Barnett informs Addams about a change of plans regarding American aid to Germany.

Food Shortages Relief Efforts

James Grover McDonald to Christina Merriman, October 14, 1920

McDonald updates Merriman on his meetings in London.

League of Nations Relief Efforts

James Grover McDonald to Christina Merriman, October 18, 1920 (fragment)

McDonald tells Merriman about visits with English associates.

England Foreign Policy Onsite Relief Efforts

James Grover McDonald to Christina Merriman, October 28, 1920

McDonald tells Merriman about his visit to London and growing animosity between England and France.

International Affairs Relief Efforts Travels

James Grover McDonald to Jane Addams, June 3, 1920

McDonald asks Addams for information on relief efforts in Soviet Russia and discusses the League's book Russian-American Relations.

Communism Foreign Policy Soviet Union

James Grover McDonald to Jane Addams, May 12, 1920

McDonald updates Addams on the need for substantial aid to Eastern Europe to avoid political chaos and on political upheaval in Mexico.

Europe Foreign Policy League of Nations Mexico Relief Efforts

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