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A Christmas Message for 1923, December 25, 1923

Addams argues for peace and international understanding to help bring Europe out of the devastation of war.

China Disarmament Europe Food Shortages Holidays Peace Relief Efforts Religion War

A Christmas Message for 1923, December 25, 1923

Addams argues for peace and international understanding to help bring Europe out of the devastation of war.

China Disarmament Europe Food Shortages Holidays Peace Relief Efforts Religion War

Belgian Food Relief Committee of Chicago

Belgium Charity Food Shortages

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

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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 Emporia Women's City Club, January 11, 1922 (summary)

Addams speaks informally to the Women's City Club about welfare work and the Russian famine.

Food Shortages Lectures Relief Efforts Social Work

European Opinion Relative to an International Organization, November 20, 1921 (excerpts) Also known as Significance of the Washington Conference, 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

Statement on Moral Conditions in Europe, September 30, 1921

Addams argues that Europe's moral slump is due to wartime problems.

Europe Food Shortages Morality World War I

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

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

Jane Addams to Emily Greene Balch, March 20, 1920

Addams answers many of Balch's questions regarding travel in 1921, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom personnel, and the summer school plans.

Food Shortages Lectures Meetings Peace Prisoners of War Relief Efforts Travels

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

Speech to the Missouri State Teachers Association, November 8, 1919 (summary)

Addams discussed the conditions in post-war Europe to the Missouri State Teachers Association at the Auditorium.

Food Shortages 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

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

Hamburg War Food Office

Food Shortages Germany

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

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Annex, April 1922

Balch lists the resolutions and economic policies passed by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

Economics Food Shortages International Affairs Peace

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

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

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

Wilbur Kelsey Thomas to Jane Addams, October 23, 1922

Thomas tells Addams that the London Friends have decided to sever ties with Fridtjof Nansen's organization.

Food Shortages Lectures Relief Efforts Soviet Union Travels

Nebraska Relief Association for Central Europe

Food Shortages Relief Efforts

Schlesinger, Professor (German food conservation) (?-?)

Food Shortages Germany

Pfeiffer, Dr. (German food conservation) (?-?)

Food Shortages Germany Medicine

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

Bose, H. (?-?)

Food Shortages Germany Medicine Relief Efforts

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

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Paul Underwood Kellogg to Jane Addams, December 20, 1921

Kellogg sends Addams illustrations that they are using for her Survey article.

Food Shortages Onsite Publications

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