Dear Miss Addams:
We should like to send to the members of the Chicago Committee for the World Court our congratulations. We believe the work of your Committee definitely helped to bring about the passage of the World Court resolution. While the World Court resolution as passed by the Senate is accompanied by more reservations than most of us believe to be necessary, they do not after all affect the psychological and moral value of the adherence of the United States to the Court. They are rather concessions to that lack of understanding of the Court on the part of so many American citizens, which has been the greatest obstacle to action on the Court for the past few years.
In the very near future we expect to send you an important letter, asking that your Committee definitely consider the next step toward the prevention of war. A plan for such a step is now having final consideration by members of the Committee of the American Peace Award and the members of the Jury. It will be ready to be transmitted to you in the very near future. We bespeak your earnest consideration of it at that time.
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