29th December 1925.
Dear Miss Adams:
I wish to thank you most cordially for your signing the statement sent out by the American Civil Liberties Union for my rehabilitation. I am grateful for your [cooperation] and hope the statement will clear the air of the vicious calumnies which have been circulated against me for the past ten years.
In spite of my living the most retired life, the accusations have never ceased; on the contrary, they cropped out from time to time and during the last few months they were particularly vehement and vicious.
The political fate compelling me to live in this country made it one of the most difficult things to bear that I was prevented from taking part in the work of the social movements in which I am more interested than in anything else.
I do hope the statement which you were kind enough to sign will help to regain for me a place in the world of work. It may interest you as a strange [coincidence] that the militarists who have been the chief promoters of the lies and calumnies against me a few months ago started a movement for my rehabilitation in their circles.
The enclosed copies will show you the nature of their actions for my rehabilitation.
I may add that the luncheon which the Military Intelligence Association invited me to address was a most solemn and serious occasion, highly satisfactory from the point of view that the organization admitted it had been wrong in its conception of my work and principles. It was one of the most satisfactory chances to make a plain statement of my out and out, hundred percent pacifism which those present, [though] not sharing, accepted as a respectable and possible point of view.
With rehabilatory statements from both friends and enemies, I look forward to a more active life than I have been allowed to live since I have been in this country.
With best wishes,
Sincerely yours,
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