Dear Miss Addams:
In the Chicago Tribune of May 28th a news story appeared reporting the address by Captain C. B. Hopkins before the Kiwanis Club at the Hotel Sherman. In the course of his remarks he spoke of this organization as being directly or indirectly influenced by agents from Russia. He said, according to the story, “it attempts to protect crime and encourages attacks upon our national institutions.” The paragraph immediately following this statement and continuing the quotation speaks of the Union as “one of the most anti-Ameircan in the country” and speaks of you, together with Mary McDowell, Robert Morss Lovett, Rev. J. H. Holmes, William Z. Foster and Scott Nearing as members of the National Committee.
In the opinion of our attorneys, this attack is clearly libelous both against you and against the organization. We should like to bring libel actions against the Chicago Tribune, Captain Hopkins and the Military Intelligence Association. We shall certainly do so so far as the Union is concerned, and if you will permit us, we will take charge of a case for you and handle it ourselves without any embarrassment or bother for you. We can handle it either in New York or Chicago. I hope you will permit us to take the matter up. If you will agree to do so, it is highly important that you should give out no statements and should leave it entirely in the hands of the attorneys whom we shall engage. The case is so good, that we have no doubt of our ability to win ↑[class]↓ action. It will be of immense value as putting a quietus on the pernicious activities of men like Hopkins and the Association which he represents. I believe yourself have previously been complimented by their attacks. Please let me hear from you at your earliest convenience.
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