Spencer offers Addams advice about the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom's United States Section and warns about aligning the group with radical and militant movements.
Addams requests that Catt does not begin preparing for war during the upcoming National American Woman Suffrage Association meeting as many women still hope it will not be declared.
Catt informs Thomas and Addams that she has been selected as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. She also comments on the Ford Peace Ship expedition and considers Addams fortunate to have missed it.