Hannah Clothier Hull to Carrie Chapman Catt, January 28, 1925

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January 28, 1925.

Mrs. Carrie ↑Chapman↓ Catt,
171 Madison Avenue,
New York City.

Dear Mrs. Catt:

Had I known at the time of my little interview with you in the Hall of Nations at the Washington hotel that you had referred as you did at the morning session to the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, I would have taken that opportunity to say what I feel moved to write to you now. I am sorry that I was late that morning and had to depend upon newspaper reports and what others told me.

As to your saying that you were expelled from our organization when you offered the Suffrage Association to the President in case of war, may I not remind you that it was only the New York City Branch which took whatever action of the kind was taken, and that the group which took it very soon afterwards withdrew from the W.I.L.P.F. because they were dissatisfied that we did not go as far as they did in requirements for membership. So please do not hold this against us any longer; will you? I am sure you are too familiar with false reports of things pertaining to your own work in times past to want ever again to add this accusation to the many other false ones which follow in the wake of the W.I.L.P.F.

I was much interested in the Conference on Causes and Cures of War. I was a delegate from the American Association of University Women. Now that all of these organizations are comitting themselves to work for Peace, I trust our common interests will draw us closer together. I am quite curious to know just what part of our program you don’t ↑do not↓ approve and wonder whether it would be too much to ask that sometime you should write me. There were many of our W.I.L.P.F. members in the various groups of the Conference on Causes and Cures of War, and it may interest you to know that five of the seven women speakers on your program, and one of your presiding officers, are members of our organization:

Judge Florence Allen
Mrs. Spencer
Miss Abbott
Dr. [Woolley]
Dr. Hamilton
and
Miss Lathrop [page 2]

With hearty congratulations upon the success of the Conference and best wishes for all that you may be led to do in the future, I am

Sincerely yours,

National Chairman

↑P.S.

One of our members who was a National Board member at the time, tells me that you were not "expelled" even by the local Branch, but that only a protest was made to you. My chief point, of course, is that it was not the National nor the International which acted.↓