Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-05-02
WOMEN URGING
RECOGNITION OF !
SOVIET RUSSIA
League of Peace and Freedom
Takes Place in LimeIight
at Washington.
BY CONSTANCE DREXEL.

WASHINGTON, May 2.-The Women's
dom Of which Miss Jane Adams Ia
president has replaced the League Of
Women Voters as the most active group
of women in Washington at the moment.
To identify this group. it is PERHAPS
well to explain that it is the same o.
ganization which held its first interna-
tional congress at the Hague just seven
years ago, in April, 1915. Governments
interviewed with any further meetings I'M
til May, 1919, when they met in Zurich,
Switzerland. Last summer they met in
Vienna, Miss Jane Adams has presided
at each of the congresses.
Probably this group of women is the
most courageous of any in the way of
delving into international relations. In
May 1919, they denounced the peace
treaty which has then been handed to
the Germans in Versailles but not yet
signed and they found fault with many
of the provisions of the League of Ma
tons. However it is not the interna-
tional league that has been meeting in
convention here the past three days. It
is only the American branch, though
three foreign women have come over spe-
cially for the meetings. They are to tour
the country under the auspices Of the
league
One of them, Miss Gertrude Baer Of
Munich, Germany, caused CONSERVATION
at the mass meeting yesterday by her
failure to appear, because of detention at
Ellis Island, on suspicion Of belonging to
the Communist party Of Germany.
Furthermore, she could not keep her
appointment with the President today
made by the State Department at re-
quest Of the German embassy, it is
said, nor could she 90 with the deIega-
ton Of women to Secretary Hughes. But
word received at headquarters of the
Women's international League this after
noon said she had been released from
Ellis Island and now was in New York,
where she would speak tomorrow.
The other foreign women here are Mrs.
Annette Robinson Of Manchester, Eng
land, and Mile. Therese Pottecher of
Paris. The resolution passed by the con-
vention, both in its sessions at the Grace
Hotel on Saturday and again at the meet
ing in New Masonic Temple yesterday, IN
cluded one for the outlawing of war, sim
liar to that passed in the last few days
by the national conventions of the Y. W
9. A. IN Hot Springs, Ark, and the
League of Women Voters in Baltimore;
recognize the Soviet government Of Rus
sia; calling upon the President to grant
immediate amnesty for wartime political
prisoners in Federal prisons, and urging
the withdrawal Of American troops from
Haiti and San Domingo. Still another
resolution called upon women to support
for Congress and other Office only such
candidates as are pledged to drastic re-
ductions Of armamerts
The question Of whether or not the
league should demand a pledge Of non
resistance from its members was dis
cussed and urged by Henry Willard OF
New York and Miss Mary WinsSr Of
Pennsylvania, but defeated
The State Department. has given out
the text Of the Russian resolution pre-
scented by q delegation OF the Womens
International League and Secretary
Hughes reply to them.
The six women who spoke for the reso-
luton are Mrs. John Jay White of New
York, Miss Ella BoyntoL Of Chicago, Miss
Helena Dudley, a settlement worker of
Boston. Mrs. W. A. Atkinson of Detroit,
formerly president of the Michigan
branch Of the American University Wom-
en-. Mrs. Zonia Baber of Chicago. who at
tended the League of Nations meetings in
Geneva when DR.. hansen told his ex-
periences in Russia when repatriatinC
prisoners Of war and Miss Lucy Branham
who recently returend from famine relief
work in the Volga regions
Other members of the delegation to
call upon Secretary Hughes today in-
cluded Mrs. W. H. Bradbury of Illinois,
Mrs. William J. Black of Michigan, Mrs,
Theodore Andre, Mrs. w. T. Anderson
and Mrs. Allen Robertson all Of Niscon-
sin; Miss Marion Tilden Burt of New
York and Mrs. Louis Prang of Massachu-
sets.
In addition to the audience with Secre-
tary Hughes in regard to recognition Of
Russia, Miss Jane Adams of Chicago,
Miss Lillian VALID Of Henry Street settle
ment, New York, and Mrs. Lucy Biddle
Lewis Of Philadelphia have interviewed
Secretary of Commerce Hoover asking
for his support for friendly relations with
soviet Russia.
A new executive board for the Amer4
lean branch Of the Women's Interna-
tional League has been elected as follows
Miss Jane Adams. ex-offcio: Mrs,
George T. Odell of Washington. Mrs,
George NJ. Mathes of Chicago. Mrs Henry
G. Leach of New York Mrs Roberts OF
Wisconsin, Miss Ellen winsor of Penn
sylvania, Mrs. Harriet Conner Brown %
Washington, Mrs. Louise Post of Wash4
ington, Miss Helen Chover of Boston, Mrs.
Lucia Ames Mead Of Boston, Miss Ella
Boynton of Chicago and DIR. Alice Hamils
ton Of Cambridge.
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