Addams, Lucy Mead, Crystal Eastman, and Sophonisba Breckinridge testify before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, on preparedness and the United States' role in World War I.
Addams, Lucia Mead, Crystal Eastman, and Sophonisba Breckinridge testify before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, arguing against preparedness and suggesting ways to end the war.
Addams asks members of the Woman's Peace Party National Executive Board to use their influence to try to prevent the United States from being drawn into war.
Post thanks Addams for including her name in a telegram to President Wilson and suggests asking him about the United States conducting a "police war", tasked only to protect goods and citizens.
Addams argues how ideas about nationalism and patriotism are beginning to cloud peoples judgement about the war. This speech was given before the Chicago Woman's Club.
Addams discusses the challenges pacifists face now that the United States has entered World War I, and discusses how nationalism and patriotism are used to support war. Addams gave a lecture version of this article on June 10 at the Evanston Congregational Church.
Schwarzschild writes to newspaper editors proposing an office to help exchange messages between Americans and their relatives living in the Central Powers.
