Dear Mr. Burton:
I am most happy to seize the opportunity that you so kindly offer me to correct certain misstatements in the Plain Dealer of this morning.
There was no attack made upon the American Legion at the meeting of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom yesterday. On the contrary, the whole tenor of the remarks was one of sympathy and respect for the ex-soldier and of regret that the American Legion should never be led into misunderstandings, as it seems to us sometimes to be.
In regard to statements about the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom as quoted in this morning's issue of the same paper, allow me to make the following categorial statements:
(1) -- The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom has no affiliations with Bolshevism in this country or elsewhere, has no communication with Soviet Russia, and is opposed to class dictatorship and all violence. We challenge any person to bring forward a scrap of evidence to the contrary.
(2) -- The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom has never asked its members to take any sort of pledge or oath and has never accepted a so-called "slacker's oath" or similar engagement.
(3) -- The aim of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom is not a disarmed United States in the midst of a hostile world. Its aim is disarmament all around as an integral part of ↑an↓ international situation in which war is effectively outlawed and replaced by arbitration and friendly international cooperation. [page 2]
We long to see the men who fought a war to end war now throw their strength into carrying on the work of their dead comrades and bringing it to pass that their sons will not be called on to suffer what they suffered.
Faithfully yours,
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