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Jane Addams to Lydia G. Wentworth, February 10, 1920

Addams invites Wentworth to join the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom's national and international groups and sends her information on the Zurich meeting.

Memberships Peace

Jane Addams to Leonora O'Reilly, February 9, 1920

Addams thanks O'Reilly for joining the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and send her some literature.

Peace

Lucy Biddle Lewis to Jane Addams, January 28, 1920

Lewis tells Addams about work being done in Pennsylvania and asks Addams's advice about dealing with Herbert Hoover.

Food Shortages Peace Relief Efforts Woman Suffrage

Frida Perlen to the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Office, January 1920

Perlen and the German Section ask the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom to raise a protest against the world blockade of the Soviet Union.

Food Shortages Peace Requests Soviet Union

Peace Strike Pledge, ca. 1920

A pledge sent to Women's International League for Peace and Freedom members in Palo Alto, California, swearing to join in an international women's strike if war should break out.

Internationalism Labor Peace War

Has Nationalism Become a Dogma?, 1920

Addams warns of the dangers of the new nationalistic favor sweeping the world following the war.

Diplomacy Internationalism Nationalism Onsite Politics Writings

Emily Greene Balch to Maria-Ivanna Wojakiwska Hrushveska, December 31, 1919

Balch offers Hrushveska information about setting up the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom's Ukrainian Section.

Peace Ukraine

Emily Greene Balch to Jane Addams, December 25, 1919

Balch tells Addams about the American peace movement, office work at the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and questions about where the organization should become involved.

Holidays Peace Relief Efforts

Lydia Chichmanova to Emily Greene Balch, December 21, 1919

Chichmanova announces the formation of a Ukrainian section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

Peace Ukraine

Emily Greene Balch to Jane Addams, November 11, 1919

Balch writes to Addams about the League's finances and a meeting.

Finances Meetings Memberships Peace

Address to the International Congress of Working Women, October 31, 1919

Addams discusses the importance of including women in labor conferences and organizing and congratulates them on their efforts.

Internationalism Labor Lectures

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, October 28, 1919

Addams thanks Wald for donating to the International Congress of Women at Zurich.

Finances Peace

Emily Greene Balch to Jane Addams, September 30, 1919

Balch writes Addams about her personal life, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom office in Geneva, activities regarding prisoners of war, and international education.

Child Welfare Conferences Diplomacy Hungary Internationalism League of Nations Onsite Peace Switzerland World War I

After the Lean Years: Impressions of Food Conditions in Germany When Peace was Signed, September 6, 1919

Addams and Hamilton report on their investigation of food shortages and conditions in post-War Germany.

Charity Child Welfare Children Germany Health Internationalism Relief Efforts

Statement on War and Suffrage, August 29, 1919

Addams notes that women in Europe have been seeking government positions since World War I.

Woman Suffrage Women's Rights World War I

Jane Addams to Paul Underwood Kellogg, August 28, 1919

Addams sends Kellogg some corrections to her manuscript to make it more conservative due to the reaction from an interview she gave.

Peace Requests

Emily Greene Balch to Rose Standish Nichols, August 26, 1919

Balch discusses the construction of an office for the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and plans for expanding the work to new countries.

China Japan Peace

Emily Greene Balch to Rosa Manus, August 25, 1919

Balch asks Manus to send her the account books from the Women's International Committee for a Permanent Peace.

Finances Peace Requests

Emily Greene Balch to Marian Fleming Harwood, August 22, 1919

Balch replies to Harwood about the way in which the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom will organize within countries.

Australia Internationalism Peace

Emily Greene Balch to the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Executive Committee, August 4, 1919

Balch updates the Committee on the status of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom newsletter, financial matters, and the League's goals, seeking opinions. Balch quotes from several incoming letters on these issues.

Finances Meetings Peace Publishing

Message on Reconstruction, August 1919

Addams hopes that shared experiences during the war will help foster international communcation again.

Internationalism Peace

Emily Greene Balch to Jane Addams, July 7, 1919

Balch updates Addams on remaining costs from the Congress and discusses the need for child welfare in Hungary.

Child Welfare Finances Hungary Peace Relief Efforts

Emily Greene Balch to Theodora "Thora" Daugaard, July 2, 1919

Balch is dismayed that Daugarrd has cut back her peace work, but hopes she will promote the work of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in her writing. .

Peace