The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-05-01
IS
WAR'SFOE,
SHE SAYS
Jane Adams Apologies to
Peace League Session for
Some intolerance" Here.


America should lead the world
il ending war, Miss Jane Adams,
Noted sOciologist and. president of
the Women's International League
of Peace and Freedom, declared at
the opening session of the leagues
fourth international congress in
the Washington Hotel today.
Miss Adams message was
packed with admonitions to the
delegates to voice their convic-
tions openly without fear Of con-
sequences.
Apologies for Intolerance.
She went SO far as to offer an
apology. as an American citizen, to
foreign delegates for certain cur.
rents Of intolerance never before
encountered at our previous con.
gresses," which she blamed on war
psychology.
II assure you that Americans are
not by nature and training less
tolerant than the people in those
other countries, who treated us with
| such fine and unvarying courtesy"
7 laid Miss Adams. She sugge sted
that perhaps it was too soon to
| hold our congress on American
soil"
Possibly we ought to have &C.
| cented the invitation of our Brit.
ish section to meet in London" she
said, where free speech and free
assemblage are once more firmly
re.established.
Demand for U. s. to Lead.
Miss Adams told the delegates
that she would be lin despair" il
they were frightened and inhabit-
ed, so that instead of real con-
gress with a genuine discussion, we
should have sort Of dress parade
congress, with a pretended discus
sion and an expression of half-con-
victions."
MAY / also add" Miss Adams
continued, that as you speak from
your hearts, from the depth of your
own experiences, as you have in
other congresses. that you will find
a tremendous response throughout
the length and breadth of this wide
land of our.
"In churches, in colleges, in
cities and ION farms, there is at
last arising an overwhelming de-
mand that war shall cease, and
more than that-that the United
States shall lead in a movement
to this end"
| tn tnd Of
almost every sentence by the pat
ter Of applauding hands. Many of
the foreign delegates approved
verbally, in ordinations
Detectives are Missing.
The congress opened quietly,
without a sign of the predicted
antagonism. The plainclothesmen
and Department of Justice agents,
who, it was reported yesterday,
would be on hand to guard against
violence and to quell inflammatory
utterances, apparently were at work
elsewhere.
The Salon des Nations of the
hotel was almost filled with dele
gates. A few men were scattered
among the audience. Foreign visi-
tors occupied seats near the stage,
to facilitate their understanding of
the procedure. Interpreters trans
lated English announcements into
French and other languages from
the stage.
Meeting Truly International.
The French tongue and Franco
English accents predominated at
the morning, session. Groups of
| women formed In the lobby of the
salon before the meeting and dur
ing the first hour, and spoke in
| their native languages Tables were
piled with pacifistic literature, with
titles and sometimes text printed
in two or three languages. The
meeting was truly International.
Early In the meeting, 1t was an
nounced that arrangements had
been made for the delegates to be
received by President Coolidge
Wednesday.
Foreigners were instructed to
make the proper arrangements
through their respective embassies
and legations.
Warns Germany and France.
Due to the impending elections
in France and Germany, the con-
gress brought in resolution, in
tended for later introduction, warn
ing that only by the triumph in
both these countries Of the sin.
cerely democratic and progressive
elements can their political and
economic relations be harmonized
and European crisis averted."
There is urgent need of an in.
teFnational policy, based on ma.
tional understanding and cooper.
ation." the resolution concluded.