WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM
To Executive Members,
24-X-1925.
My dear Miss Addams,
Here is your new International Secretary arrived and being broken in, in most charming fashion by the old International Secretary Vilma Glücklich.
I am sure you all know that I shall do my best to carry on the work here in the way in which I feel you would want it done and I hope you will not hesitate to criticize and make suggestions for that will help me more than any thing else.
First I have to consult you about the News Sheet. I imagine you will not mind if I increase it a little in size making it more like the present American Bulletin and publish it in three languages French, German and English provided I have the money for the same.
The situation is this. I have been editing the American Bulletin and we promised our members in the U.S. a monthly publication and one of the difficulties in coming away was what to do about the American Bulletin.
At the National Board meeting in September at which Miss Addams was present it was suggested that in view of the fact that I was coming to Geneva we should make the Bulletin an International publication if you were willing and have only a news sheet in America.
The U.S. section however felt it was not fair to ask the International office to undertake a [Bulletin] unless they helped very materially to support it. As a result an appeal was sent to the "American Fund" signed by Miss Addams asking for the sum of two hundred dollars a month to pay our printing bill. Each month we are to send our printing bill to the Fund and they are to pay it, up to the amount of $200 a month for a year, which really means a donation of $2,400.
The U.S. section hopes that in return for securing [page 2] this money for the printing bill of the International office that each American member who subscribed to the American Bulletin can for this year, have a copy each month of the International publication.
I stopped in Paris on my way here and consulted with Mme. Duchêne and she was very glad to accept the arrangement suggested by the U.S. section. If you also agree to this plan I shall at once begin work on a November Bulletin.
One of my greatest difficulties will be the translation of French and German for I should like to have the French and German issues each as interesting and vital as the English one and that I think means I ought to have a real French and German person to help me with the French issue and the German issue.
I have been wondering if it would not be possible to get Mlle. Dumont to aid with the French issue and Lida G. Heymann and Anita Augspurg with the German issue.
All these things of course are details to work out later if you are content to have me go ahead and see what can be done.
I trust before very long we can have another Executive Committee meeting for I have a million things I should like to lay before you and try to carry out, if you felt they were wise.
This takes my warmest greetings to each one of you and I hope in the very near future I shall be seeing each of you individually.
Faithfully,
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