mission 



The Days of a Man 1917 



have another Tolstoy case;" and the meeting was 

 therefore announced. 



Thought- The commission which began its sessions on 

 fui deiib- March 20 in the Holland House consisted of a 

 number of interested people who could remain for the 

 necessary period. 1 From day to day persons especially 

 fitted to advise, some holding views quite adverse to 

 those of the majority, appeared by request before the 

 group. We finished our work on March 23. Our con- 

 clusions were embodied in a pamphlet entitled "Alter- 

 natives to War." Of these, two lines were recognized 

 and defined: (i) a Joint High Commission, and (2) a 

 League of Neutrals. 



A joint The first method, as drawn up by Professor Hull, 

 High Com- suggested a joint conference of American and German 



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statesmen in an attempt to discover some tolerable 

 ground of agreement. Had our only purpose been the 

 elimination of the submarine, this scheme might 

 have proved practicable, but it would have made 

 future intervention in behalf of the Allies illogical and 

 perhaps impossible. 



1 Emily Greene Balch, professor of Economics at Wellesley. 



Joseph D. Cannon, late of the Western Federation of Miners, Colorado. 



Edward P. Cheyney, professor of European History, University of Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



Stoughton Cooley, editor of The Public. 



William I. Hull, professor of History at Swarthmore. 



John F. Moors, broker, Boston. 



Harry A. Overstreet, professor of Philosophy, College of the City of New 

 York. 



Arthur Le Sueur, legal adviser for certain farmers' organizations, North 

 Dakota. 



Winter Russell, attorney and publicist, New York. 



Mrs. Henry Villard, daughter of William Lloyd Garrison and chairman of 

 the Emergency Peace Federation. 



Louis P. Lochner, Secretary. 



David Starr Jordan, Chairman. 



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