WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM
12, Rue du Vieux-Collège, Geneva, Switzerland
21 May, 1926.
My dear Miss Addams,
The work of the Summer School has been handed over to Miss Emma Thomas, head of the Fellowship School at Gland. As you will remember, my name was used in connection with it without consulting me and I was not willing to assume the responsibility for the School. Furthermore, it was not wise to have me as the head of the School. A Summer School in Europe should be run by a European and not by an American who does not understand conditions.
I wish there were more students applying, but Switzerland is a very expensive place and all the European people know that it is expensive, so that we have not had many applications. Most of the students thus far are coming from America or Germany. ↑about 25 [illegible]↓
I am enclosing a copy of my report to Madeleine Doty made at the end of my sojourn before I went into Italy; also the copy of my letter to her telling of the work that I have done since my return to Geneva. I am leaving on Sunday, feeling that my work here is finished and that I am no longer needed.
I go to Paris to the Suffrage Convention, hope to take part in the Peace Pilgrimage in London and to go after that, ahead of time if I can be of service, to Dublin. I do not know whether I shall be able to go to the Summer School or not. A dear cousin of mine is to join me in June and she is very anxious to spend most of her time in Germany and the other countries that she has not visited. I am a little tired and think I must try not to do too much this summer, so that I may be fresh for my work in the fall. I hope that I have done all that you would wish me to do. [page 2]
I hope too that next year all the [organizations] of the International will try to do two things. I am putting what most people consider the least important first, but what I believe is the most important:
1/ To make the children's messages of friendship a world-wide effort on May 18th 1926.
2/ To make a world-wide effort to follow up the work of Senator Frazier in the U.S. Senate; have if possible an amendment introduced into every national legislature abolishing army and navy.
Of course the person who does that must have the courage to face ridicule as Senator Frazier has.
May I say again that I hope every pacifist will stick pins into the [armor] of the militarists and make fun of them and their absurdity in this scientific age.
Looking forward with great pleasure to seeing you again in Dublin and I hope in Geneva,
Affectionately yours,
Katherine D. Blake. [signed]
↑M. Doty has been away all the week with Mrs. White and Mme. Capy on a tour in an auto. They were to visit and hold meetings in Berne, [Basel], Zurich, and Milan. They have had bad weather till now. [Tonight] is the Milan meeting but it must be private because of Mussolini. The office force [was] arranged about the meeting here.↓
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