March 2nd 1925
Dear Miss Addams,
I am giving up the Secretaryship of the British Section at Easter. The Committee wants a Secretary who has several languages & who is more suited than I am for intensive study of other countries. I am really an [organizer] not a "student." I quite understand the Committee wishing to make a change.
All the same I am frightfully cut up about it. There are several other posts I should have a good chance of [page 2] obtaining, but I do not want to give up my work for peace, or to become cut off from the W.I.L.
I should love to come to America for six months, before I take another permanent post & am "tied by the leg" for years ahead. Do you think there would be any chance of my getting six months employment in America either with the W.I.L. or kindred [organizations]? For the sake of the experience I could accept quite a small salary on the top of expenses.
Perhaps this is only a dream but I particularly long to come to Chicago & see more of its life.
I am wondering what attitude the American Section takes to the Protocol -- particularly to the Sanctions clauses. You will see from the enclosed [page 3] that the British Section is very guarded indeed in its attitude. However, we are working under the slogan "Keep the Protocol Alive!"
Dear Miss Addams, I hope you will forgive my writing about this dream of mine to you. If there is no opportunity offering now, it must be kept for "someday." If there were more chance now then after Easter I could be released sooner.
Yours very sincerely
Dorothy Evans.
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