Sheepshanks tells Addams about her health and her ideas about how the job of international secretary for the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
Addams addresses a peace meeting and argues that in order for Europe to recover economically, the peace treaty must be revised; she also argues that the United States should and will join the League of Nations.
Heymann asks the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom's European Sections to start raising funds for peace work so that Addams and the United States Section do not have to do it all.
Dulles explores the implications of the World War I reparations on the world's economy. The speech was initially delivered at the League of Free Nations Association on March 12, 1931 in New York and then published in the New Republic.
Addams warns of the dangers of the new nationalistic favor sweeping the world following the war. This article was a version of her speech to the American Sociological Society on December 29, 1919.