The Days of a Man [^1915 



The resumption of submarine warfare at the end 

 of January, 191 7, put an end to any possibiHty of 

 effort on my part in Europe, ahhough I still hoped 

 that something might be accompHshed on Mr. Wil- 

 son's initiative. But with that matter I shall deal 

 fully in a subsequent chapter. 



]ane At the Octobcr Peace Congress I was asked to be 



Addams ^j^g medium of a personal message to the President as 

 peanchan- 3. tesult of Jaue Addams' ^ campaign in Europe the 

 ceiieries prcvious sptiug. At that time, accompanied by sev- 

 eral other women, she went abroad in the interest of 

 peace, taking as assistant Louis P. Lochner, secretary 

 of the Chicago Peace Society, an energetic young 

 graduate of the University of Wisconsin. In the 

 course of their round, the party visited the chancel- 

 leries of all the belligerent nations, receiving from 

 each the impression that efforts for mediation on the 

 part of the United States, with or without the cooper- 

 ation of other neutral nations, would be not unwel- 

 come and might prove successful. Not satisfied with 

 mere verbal assurance, however. Miss Addams 

 secured from each foreign secretary a guardedly 

 favorable statement of his attitude toward her mis- 

 sion. These papers were of course confidential, but 

 copies had been sent to the President, to Henry Ford, 

 and to me. 

 The ^ On the basis of information contained In them, 

 Pe^e'^ representatives of the Woman's Peace Party passed 

 Party at thc cougtcss lu Octobcr a resolution favoring an 



^ See Chapter xxxvi, page 293. 



