WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM
My dear Mrs. Catt,
I have answered your questions to the best of my ability but the suggestion ↑situation↓ as you see is such a complicated one that I think it would be honestly better not to try to make it clear to the D.A.R's but to let me be "thrown to the lions" as it were.
I had sent you ↑received↓ sometime ago a list of charges made by the D.A.R. It is what the French would call dossier. Have you had that? ↑if not shall I send you a copy?↓ It is a very strange mixture of truth and fiction. I am sending a copy of Emily Balch's reply to that which, of course, is much too flattering and perhaps does as much harm as good.
The assumption of the D.A.R. is that they are public censors is comparatively recent but very wide spread. I am enclosing a clipping from a Chicago morning paper illustrating what happens everywhere. They have never had enough to do and this is making them a certain activity. I personally do not believe that much can be done with the public in this state ↑of mind.↓ However, I am sending the answers to your questions ↑in another envelope↓ and you must, of course use your own judgment in the matter.
Thanking you for your letter, I am,
↑faithfully yours↓
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