Dear Miss Addams:
I have just read your book on Peace and Bread, which you kindly sent to me and I want to thank you heartily for it.
It has deeply impressed me. I had not quite realized that the atmosphere was so hostile in USA against pacifists of your type and that you were just so isolated there as people of secular attitude were here. I have known this sense of solidarity with a very few, but of isolation between most with whom I had been bound together through [comradery] in work or friendship. And this book of yours has made me feel less lonely now after all these years -- but so sad to think how difficult life was made for you.
I shall try to write a few lines about it to advertise it here -- but I am afraid they won’t give me any space now when the papers are so full with the Genoa Conference.
However, I believe so firmly that the future must realize our ideals, and this belief is unshaken as is yours. In fact, it is more than a belief. I support it as faith.
I have often after remembered the [page 2] evening which I spent with you last fall at Geneva. It was such a pleasure to come across you and I am looking forward to your coming next year!
Kindest regards and many thanks again.
Yours [affectionately]
Alice Salomon
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