NEUTRAL CONFERENCE FOR CONTINUOUS MEDIATION
April 24, 1916.
My dear Miss Addams,
You cannot imagine how happy I am that today Miss Balch has at last arrived. We have certainly been looking forward to her coming with the greatest of expectation, and now that she is here, even though she has been here only for a few hours, we are all breathing more freely.
The reorganization of our work, by which a small central committee is to direct the efforts of the Conference, has practically been completed and I think that the Conference will take a new lease of life. It has not been an easy task to bring about this reorganization, and many mistakes were made in the execution of the plan, but that seems to be part of the day's work. This big fact remains that we have completed an Appeal to the Belligerent governments, a copy of which I am enclosing herewith, and that <that> Appeal is drawing forth comment all over Europe. Is has been extremely significant to me to notice that the paper like [Vorwärts], and the Berliner Tageblatt, have published the Appeal in full, even though it has the reputation of being pro-Ally.
I was the happiest man in Stockholm when my family arrived, but it is still somewhat of a mystery, which Miss Balch, I hope, will clear up, as to just how and why Alfred Klieforth arrived here too.
I must be brief today, for the mail for the SS Bergensfjord closes tonight. All these weeks I have been rather overworked as I was on the committee which drafted [page 2] the Appeal, and in fact was finally commissioned to write the version of it that was finally adopted. This meant that in addition to my secretarial duties, I had to give much time to that work, and could therefore not keep up with my correspondence. But I hope to write you more in detail with the next boat.
I have not even had time to find out from Miss Balch just when you hope to come, but she will come to lunch to our house this noon (we have a beautiful little flat with lots of air and sunshine), and then I shall go into all these matters more in detail.
With kindest regards,
Most cordially yours,
Louis P. Lochner [signed]
<P.S. Have just talked again with Miss Balch. I am awfully glad to hear that your health is somewhat improved.>
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