The Days of a Man 



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The resumption of submarine warfare at the end 

 of January, 1917, put an end to any possibility of 

 effort on my part in Europe, although I still hoped 

 that something might be accomplished on Mr. Wil- 

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

 fully in a subsequent chapter. 



celleries 



jane At the October Peace Congress I was asked to be 



Addams tne mec li uin of a personal message to the President as 



and Euro- t /* T A 11 * * ..-- i 



a. result of Jane Addams * campaign in Europe the 

 previous spring. 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. 



On the basis of information contained in them, 

 representatives of the Woman's Peace Party passed 

 at the congress in October a resolution favoring an 



The 



Woman's 

 Peace 

 Party 



1 See Chapter xxxvi, page 293. 



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