WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM
My dear Miss Marnitz:
I evidently reported to the Board of the W.I.L. the impression which I had in my mind that the $2400 the American Fund had so generously allocated was available either in one year or two; when of course the fact of the matter was that it was available either in six months or a year. Both Mrs. Taussig and Madeleine Doty have acted upon this assumption of mine. While the mistake was unpardonable and no one can regret it more than I, may I give you the situation as it now exists in the hope [page 2] that your board, at its September meeting, may be willing to take up the matter with these facts in mind and possibly allocate the entire account for the year 1927?
When Madeleine Doty came to Geneva she took the position of Interl Secretary for two years and, as you know, has been the sole editor of Pax International. Her resignation takes effect Nov. 1st 1927 and her successor, Mary Sheepshanks, an English woman who was, for a number of years, the international Sec'y of the Women's International Suffrage Alliance takes her place.
She comes in Septr that the two secretaries may instruct each other.
Madeleine Doty may continue Pax Intl in Europe or may find it possible with the [page 3] European connections she has made to edit it from the U.S.A. It could not possibly be self supporting next year but Madeleine Doty thinks that she could secure funds for it from the general membership of the W.I.L. when she is freed from the heavy responsibility of the international Secretaryship.
There is the other possibility that Miss Sheepshanks may in time take it over. (She was for a long time the successful editor of Jus Suffragii), but that would mean a certain change, doubtless, in the paper itself which is not at this moment contemplated and ↑it↓ would have to find new resources.
I should like very much to give Madeleine Doty the chance to finish out her two years. The USA section of the W.I.L. [page 4] continues its share of the expenses of Pax under its present editor but is not committed beyond Madeleine Doty's term.
I suppose all of the special journals, like World Tomorrow and the Survey, even the Nation and the New Republic have to be subsidized and cannot be self supporting for years but the American Fund has certainly given Pax International a fine start for which we are most grateful. The W.I.L. had never before, in our ten years' existence, been able to start a real international organ. I shall ask Madeleine Doty to write you of the enthusiasm for it in western Canada, in the Balkans and in various parts of the earth. It has had a real influence I think. [page 5]
I shall be at my present address, Hull's Cove, Maine, until the end of September and should be very grateful if you could let me know the decision of the Board -- [illegible] also write me if more information is needed before the meeting.
With apology for this long letter
I am ↑faithfully yours↓
Jane Addams.
July 29th 1927.
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