March 10, 1927.
My dear Miss Addams:
Thank you so much for your letter of February 19th and the enclosures for the "archives."
I quite understand how you feel about the President's letter. The Patriotic Council was meeting here after I got back from my trip and the National Council for Prevention of War, the Women's Trade Union League and several other organizations telephoned in asking if we had copies of the letters. They had only seen parts of it printed in the newspapers. All they wanted to do was to have them on hand in case there was any attack on you or at these meetings. There was a man from Michigan who came down to speak and was very queer and did not seem to be able to get across what he was saying and it turned out that his whole speech was prepared to attack people and at the last minute he was warned and told he could not do it and so his prepared speech he confessed was a dismal failure as he was not allowed to do what he had intended.
I have just returned from quite a successful trip, going as far as St. Louis, the Detroit Open Forum etc. and was paid enough for speaking in various places to more than cover my expenses which was a great joy to me. I missed seeing you in Chicago where I spent one day.
I am sending you under separate cover a copy of the hearing report on our bill, Resolution #15. The hearing was rather dismal though a tremendous amount of work was done on it.
You will see by the attached notice that we have planned to have the annual meeting in Cleveland at the end of April. Do you have any suggestions for speakers? I had hoped we might have Reinhold Niebuhr as he will be rather accessible. I saw him when I was in Detroit this time and he took me out to dinner and we had a long talk on the pacific world. He is probably going to leave his church and join [page 2] Sherwood Eddy in international work, though I think he feels it a pull to do so. He asked me if I knew you at all well and I "laud as how I did." It seems that he has wanted to go and see you a number of times but has missed you -- you being away or something. I think he is quite a wonderful person and I hope we are going to be able to get him for the annual meeting.
Faithfully yours,
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