INTERNATIONALE FRAUENLIGA FÜR FRIEDEN UND FREIHEIT DEUTSCHER ZWEIG
BERLIN, DEN 26 VIII 1924
at present: Hamburg, Hausastr 76I
Dear Miss Addams --
Your good letter was forwarded to me from Norway to Berlin where I worked for the W.I.L. last week. Ever so many thanks for your kind hand written reply. You ought not to have shortened the few weeks of your country stay by doing business. I hope you were having a good rest and a better summer than we all had -- whether in Norway or France or Italy or Austria or Switzerland or Germany. -- My 6 weeks' stay in Norway was all "gorgeous." I was spending a whole month on a Saeter, (an [almhus]) 3000 feet high with no other company nearly than herds of beautiful horses and cows. The high snowy mountains all around and the many colored lakes deep below: Quietness and [grandeur] and the feeling of growing together with Nature and Beauty -- though mostly cold and storm and rain and fog and yet: glorious sunsets and bright nights and isolation and concentration. And the peasants so unspoiled and kind and human like good friends, [though] they had never seen a "tysk" ("German") all their lives.
I gave word to Mrs. and Elise Hambro that you agree to have your book translated by her and that the technical [page 2] side is all right. Thanks ever so much in their names!
I am looking forward to have the Johnson and Abbott speeches as you arranged and am very much obliged for your kind order to the Washington office. I am also waiting for a hundred Congress Reports from there which we want very badly for our Annual Convention at Hamburg Sept. 30 and Oct. 1st. We hope to have a good two days' Conference with delegates from all parts of the Republic and Marcelle Capy and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Dr. Coudenhove-Kalergi from Vienna and German speakers in two big public meetings one in the University and one in the Trade-Unions Hall.
Immediately after our Conference there will take place the 23rd World Peace Congress of the [Berner Büro?]. I suppose you got the cable of the Peace Federation at Berlin. They were so eager to have you with them & I am getting letters from all over the country, asking whether you will be here. How glad and proud we all should be to know you in Germany, but, alas, I am afraid we shall have to resign...
Politically we are again facing a very serious decision. To accept or not accept is the question again! We do hope that the Reichstag will accept the London agreement or dissolve. the Reichstag Though [we] realize, of course, that the future of the working men and women, middle-class and proletarians, will be exceedingly hard if we accept, we know that not to accept means to be delivered not only to the control of international banking & industrial trusts but also to new political complications, ↑both↓ internationally & at home. This is my personal opinion and a private remark to you only.
L. G. H. and Dr. A were working rather hard in England and are now enjoying their holidays in the Austrian mountains. [page 3] We do hope to have them with us at our Convention.
I have taken up my work and am going to begin lecturing again next week.
Geneva will be a most interesting [center] in September this since Our House is crowded...
Cordial greetings to Miss Mary Smith, Mrs. Esther Cohen and all Hull House and very best wishes to yourself
Yours gratefully and most devotedly
Gertrud Baer
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