November 18, 1926.
My dear Commander Eaton:
I have just returned to Washington after my trip west and I am sending you the brief statement regarding the Women's International League, which you agreed to publish in your next issue of the Monahan Post.
Since I have returned I have received a copy of the resolution against the Women's International League, which your executive committee passed after my visit to Sioux City. Since this has occurred I very much regret that I was unable to see and talk to the whole committee. However, though I regret the resolution I do recognize the right and privilege of your post in expressing its opinion of certain of our purposes and activities. The Women's International League respects completely differences of opinion, absolute free and open and fair opposition, for surely it is only through the clash of ideas that the world progresses and pushes forward. As I explained to you when I was in Sioux City, it is not a difference of opinion nor a difference of method to which we object, but the definite misstatement of facts regarding the Women's International League which appeared in your paper.
You yourself agreed, I remember, that if there was a misrepresentation of the truth you, as a matter of honor, would wish to correct it. So I am sending you herewith the statement which you agreed to publish in correcting some of the unfortunate inaccuracies in your April number. I am wondering if it would be too much to ask [page 2] if you would be willing to send me the material on which the first article was based and the sources from which you received this material? May I venture to add that I am having faith in your word to me and to the group of women who were with me that you will [publish] my statement in the same important position as the attack on us?
I believe that those things on which we agree are so much greater and more essential than those things on which we do not agree. The fact that we work in desiring to serve our country and to prevent its being again desolated by a war (in which the finest boys in the nation inevitably bear the brunt) is far more important than differences of opinion as to the best and most effective methods of achieving our common purpose. So in spite of this unfortunate affair I am hoping that the time will come very soon when, though we different in opinion on many things, we may be able to work together on some joint program for world peace.
Very cordially yours,
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