To the Editor of The Herald:
I am not in any sense a Socialist, have never belonged to the party, and have never been especially affiliated with them. I am certainly not a communist nor a bolshevik. I am, of course, president of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and we have advocated recognition of Soviet Russia, not because we have been in favor of the government any more than we were with that of the Czars. I did not go to Europe with Mr. Ford on his peace ship, although I am generally credited with having done so.
The Women’s International League has never had a pledge or oath of any kind, many of our members being Quakers -- I myself am of Quaker descent -- who would not for a moment consider a pledge.
I do not know why I am called a bolshevik except as a term of opprobrium that is easily flung about. The point I made in my Cleveland address was the similarity between our situation and that following the French revolution, which was suggested by a very stimulating book called “The French Revolution in English History” by a young man named Brown, with preface by Gilbert Murray. I found it very suggestive. JANE ADDAMS.
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