WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. -- (U.P.) -- Miss Jane Addams, famous social worker, said after calling on President Coolidge today that he told her conversations would begin with France soon toward framing a treaty outlawing war.
The conversations will start as soon as Ambassador Herrick returns to France, Miss Addams said she was informed.
She headed a delegation of the Women's League for Peace and Freedom which presented Mr. Coolidge with a petition, signed by 30,000 persons, asking substitution of arbitration for war.
Miss Addams said she told the president America entered only two arbitration agreements since 1918, while European countries had signed several hundred.
The president replied, she said, that this nation had in the aggregate more such pacts than Europe and that a country occupying this nation's position needed fewer than others.
Comments