Emily Greene Balch to Theodore Sherman Class, May 4, 1927

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May fourth 1927.

Mr. T. Sherman Class,
Messrs Alexander and Keenan, 54 Wall Street, N.Y.C.

Dear Mr. Class,

I have received your letters of April 28 and May third with their various enclosures. As you supposed your telegram to me at Cleveland missed me.

First with regard to the questions raised by Miss Addams and by you in your letter to her of April 27.

I am relieved that you feel as I do that the interpretation that she has suggested viz. to consider me as having been continued as Treasurer since my resignation in [illegible] 1922 -- is not valid. At Cleveland I had the opportunity to talk things all over with her which was a great advantage to me as she both knows the present arrangements better than I do as I have not been in Geneva for some four years nor was I at the Dublin Congress last summer and has the wisest judgment of all the persons that I have ever known. Nevertheless I do believe that on this point she is demonstrably wrong.

Referring to the point raised at the foot of the first page of your letter of April 27 my memory is that Madame Ramondt was elected Recording Secretary and Financial Secretary by the Executive Committee at its session following the Washington Congress.

Referring to P 3, p. 2 of the same letter, [illegible] [page 2] [written in upper left margin] ↑p 2 of your letter to Miss Addams [3rd] paragraph↓

I understand the phrase "New Officers ***** elected May, 1924, to lump together in one sentence the elections by the Congress and those [illegible] the elections and ↑or↓ appointments made by the Executive Committee. [written in top margin] ↑([Rewritten out just] as below)↓

I am not in a position, I think, to throw any light on the other points raised in this letter.

[written in left margin] ↑I [illegible] must refer [illegible] to Miss Addams↓ In regard to the questions in your letter to me of May 4 I will reply to such as I can and refer the others to Miss Addams herself. and I am confident that you will hear from her promptly.

I think [illegible] ↑Hoping that everything will be [favorably] cleared up↓ so that when Mr. Tibbetts ↑[illegible]↓ confers with Miss Doty and Madame Ramondt [together] everything will be intelligible ↑and consults the Geneva files↓.

Faithfully yours,

Emily G Balch [signed]