Madeleine Zabriskie Doty to Jane Addams, November 5, 1926

WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM

12, Rue du Vieux-Collège, Geneva, Switzerland

5th November 1926.

Dear Jane Addams,

I am still in the throes of the Dublin Congress Report. I went off to Paris the end of last week and spent two days there, going over with Madame Duchêne all the articles to make sure nothing had been omitted. She, as you know, was the person appointed by the small Executive Committee to advise with me on the Report.

Now Madame Duchêne and I are both of the opinion that there should be a preface by you. I suppose you [realize] that the only speech of yours which we have in the Report is the one of the Mass Meeting in Dublin and I am sure that it is important that you should gather up the threads of the Congress and make a Statement. You perhaps could do this fairly easily with the material there is in the August and September "Pax" on the Congress. I am enclosing also herewith a very brief Statement on the Next Steps advocated by each of the Sections in their reports.

We are following in the Congress Report the plan which we outlined at the Executive Committee Meeting in Dublin, namely as follows: -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Reports of the National Sections on "Next Steps toward Peace" -- Public Mass Meeting on "Next Steps toward Peace" -– Reports of the Commissions, Imperialism, Minorities and Arbitration, -- Reports of Permanent Commissions -- Headquarters Report -- Constitution -- Financial Report -- Addresses of National Sections, etc.

I am trying as far as possible to send every speech [page 2] back to the speaker for correction, so that there will be no dissatisfaction. This, of course, is taking a large amount of time and means that the Report will not be out before the 1st of December, but perhaps it is the wisest way to proceed.

Will you also please note whether you are satisfied with ↑your↓ speech on the "Next Steps toward Peace" as reported in "Pax" in August. I thought perhaps the whole article, as it appeared in "Pax" might do for the Report on the Evening Meeting, perhaps slightly enlarged and giving a few extracts from Arnold Forster and Lucie [Dejardin], both of whom were omitted in the "Pax" issue.

I am waiting anxiously every day for word from the American Fund; I have heard nothing as yet. In the meantime, I have written to [Morris] Ernst, urging him to stand by us and do what he can to secure this money for us, in case the Fund can no longer undertake it.

I have received the 2,700 crowns from Thora Daugaard and this is helping us along, but of course I shall soon have to begin a campaign for members. In order that I may not conflict with anything you are doing in America, would you perhaps be willing to send me a list of names and let me see if from here I can get these people to join internationally. As you will see, we had quite a response from 81 people ↑owing dues↓ to whom I sent out a notice from here and I am sure the effect of a letter and circular from Geneva urging membership would do a good deal. I am gradually persuading Miss Courtney of this and I hope soon that she will let me [circularize] a large number of English people, who might be members, but are not as yet. In the December issue of "Pax" I am planning to make a general appeal for international members and urge the payment of dues the first of the year as a great aid to us in our work. But of course a general appeal like this in a paper is never as successful as an individual personal appeal.

As I wrote you last month, we are busy doing over the kitchen and yesterday, much to the satisfaction of everybody, we added a piano to our equipment. Of course, it is only rented and Dad is paying the rent for the first month. I am sure it is going to be a joy to everyone.

I wonder if you are back in Hull House and ↑or if you↓ are still staying with Mary Smith. In any case I hope it means you are getting your strength back. [page 3]

I am enclosing a copy of the November "Pax." We are shipping it now the 3rd of every month. The issue has already left for America.

With my deep affection,

Faithfully yours,

Enclosures.

↑Your letter about "Pax" just come. I am answering it at length.↓