My dear Miss Addams
Your book I eagerly opened the moment it arrived, but I had only a minute before I was interrupted. Before taking time for further reading I wish to thank you for sending it, and to tell you of my appreciation [page 2] and sympathy. The book is telling me the history of your efforts; much of which I have had, of course, no way of knowing, and which I have been very eager to know.
It is encouraging to read of the magnificent efforts put forth to save the many from the greed of the few, for I do not doubt but that it was a mere [page 3] handful of men in each nation who were such slaves to their own narrowness that they sought war. That handful was sufficiently well organized however and sufficiently powerful to deceive most of the people, -- hence the awful tragedy. I have not yet come to your explanation of our own government.
I am sure the head of it was not narrow and was sincere, but in some unaccountable way, -- unaccountable as yet to me -- he too was deceived. A dark picture, I have to turn from it, and let my thoughts dwell upon your band of courageous thinkers who dared to think and dared to act, and to know that there were some others who also tried to stop the madness of war.
Thank you again for the book, which I am going to have the pleasure of reading at this very moment.
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