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Board Meeting to Open Tuesday in Washington, January 6, 1924 (excerpt)

Report about club women questioning women on their support for American military.

Clubs Military Patriotism Preparedness Women's Rights

Remarks at the Mount Vernon Place Methodist Episcopal Church, April 22, 1924

Addams proclaims that radio and moving pictures are used as militarist propaganda and discusses WILPF's international work.

Lectures Military Peace Propaganda

Zona Gale to Jane Addams, June 6, 1925 (fragment)

Gale tells Addams about the increase in spending on military science after Wisconsin passed a law making military training in colleges optional.

Education Government Military

Jane Addams to Dorothy Detzer, June 10, 1925

Addams sends Detzer information on a study of military spending in Wisconsin and suggest other states look into it.

Military

Calls for Preparedness, June 8, 1924

A clipping describing Nathan Shiverick's condemnation of peace activists.

Anti-radicalism Military Peace Preparedness

Nathan Crary Shiverick to Jane Addams, May 26, 1924

Shiverick criticizes Addams and the peace movement for operating in theory to end war rather that focusing on the deterrent of preparedness.

Criticism International Affairs Military Pacifism Peace Preparedness World War I

Fanny Huldah Stocking to Jane Addams, May 6, 1924

Stocking asks Addams to have the International Congress of Women discuss Mobilization Day.

Military Peace Requests

Unity, October 4, 1923

An issue of Unity that features articles on the settlement of international disputes, labor in Italy and Germany, and book reviews.

Education Europe Fascism Government International Affairs Journalism Labor League of Nations Peace Religion World War I

The International Aeronautical Foundation, (I.A.F.), ca. 1923

Knight argues that aerial warfare should be regulated because it is too dangerous.

Business Disarmament Government International Affairs Military Peace Preparedness Publications Research War World War I

Editorial: An Air Limitations Conference Would End the Crazy Race for International Supremacy, August 17, 1923

An editorial calling for a conference to end the arms race.

Conferences Disarmament Foreign Policy France International Affairs Military Peace

Editorial: Allied Friendship Endangered--And For No Good Reason, August 10, 1923

An editorial that blames France's militarism for destabilizing European politics.

Disarmament England Foreign Policy France International Affairs Italy Military Peace

Testimony Before the Committee on Military Affairs, House of Representatives, January 11, 1921

Brown testifies on behalf of the United States Section of WILPF for a dramatic reduction in U.S. military spending and and for universal disarmament.

Conscription Disarmament Finances Government Japan Mexico Military Peace Preparedness Racism Taxes World War I

Anita Augspurg and Lida Gustava Heymann to Gustav von Kahr, May 21, 1920

Augspurg and Heymann suggest the dismissal of volunteer militias, arguing that Germany should instead focus on education to restart its economy and culture.

Education Germany Military Peace

Evelyn A. Freed to Jane Addams, March 3, 1920

Freed asks Addams for advice in helping a friend whose life has been derailed by his deserting the army.

Military Peace Requests War

Morton L. Johnson to Jane Addams, January 24, 1916

Military Peace Public Opinion Requests

Statement of purpose of Collegiate Anti-Militarism League April 10, 1915

Education Internationalism Military Peace World War I

Eleanor Daggett Karsten to Nellie Baldwin, March 2, 1918

Karsten sends Baldwin literature on military training in schools.

Military Peace

Nellie Harris Baldwin to Jane Addams, February 26, 1918

Baldwin calls upon Addams to protest universal military training.

Military Requests Socialism World War I

Eleanor Daggett Karsten to Vincent Judson Rosecrans, February 14, 1918

Karsten sends Rosecrans material on military training in schools and universal military service for a school debate.

Conscription Military Requests

Beatrice Hutchingson Winter to Jane Addams, November 21, 1917

Winter asks what can the Berkeley Woman's Peace Party do to end wartime crimes.

Military Requests World War I

Alice Thacher Post to Jane Addams, Anna Garlin Spencer, and Lucia Ames Mead, November 20, 1917

Post mentions discussions of dissolving the Woman's Peace Party. Post explains her opposition to this idea. Post also briefly discusses her opinion of compulsory military training.

Memberships Military Peace Recommendations World War I

Alice Thacher Post to Jane Addams, September 14, 1917

Post suggests that the Woman's Peace Party Executive Board meeting be held in New York or Boston.

Conferences Meetings Military

Eleanor Daggett Karsten to Jessamine Pauline Swain Fishback, July 12, 1917

Karsten talks about the protests against sending troops to France in a letter to Fishback and sends Fishback material from the Woman's Peace Party.

France Military War World War I

Jessamine Pauline Swain Fishback to Jane Addams, July 1, 1917

Fishback asks Addams to participate in a protest against sending young troops to France.

France Military Requests War

Emily Herey Denison to Jane Addams, February 19, 1917

Denison expresses her opposition to Addams's request to demand a referendum from President Wilson because of the current political climate in the U.S. and the need to build defense against Germany.

Criticism Military Peace Politics Preparedness War World War I