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written by Lucia True Ames Mead, 1856-1936, in Edwin D. Mead and Lucia Ames Mead Papers, 1876-1938, of Swarthmore College Peace Collection (Microfilm Reel 5, #33, [microform], Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1988. Originals held by Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.) (Swarthmore, PA) (May 1919); in Diary 1919 - [No. 2] , [NA]-[NA]
This portion of Lucia Ames Mead’s diary, beginning May 10, covered the 1919 WILPF Congress in Zurich. Mead described the proceedings of the Congress in detail, including speeches, motions for resolutions, and topics of discussion from delegates and observers from many nations. Mead called Jane Addams’s leaders...
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written by Lucia True Ames Mead, 1856-1936, in Edwin D. Mead and Lucia Ames Mead Papers, 1876-1938, of Swarthmore College Peace Collection (Microfilm Reel 5, #33, [microform], Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1988. Originals held by Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.) (Swarthmore, PA) (May 1919); in Diary 1919 - [No. 2] , [NA]-[NA]
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This portion of Lucia Ames Mead’s diary, beginning May 10, covered the 1919 WILPF Congress in Zurich. Mead described the proceedings of the Congress in detail, including speeches, motions for resolutions, and topics of discussion from delegates and observers from many nations. Mead called Jane Addams’s leadership, “patient, fair, shrewd, and kind.” Mead gave opening remarks on the Covenant of the League of Nations. The group issued the Bo...
This portion of Lucia Ames Mead’s diary, beginning May 10, covered the 1919 WILPF Congress in Zurich. Mead described the proceedings of the Congress in detail, including speeches, motions for resolutions, and topics of discussion from delegates and observers from many nations. Mead called Jane Addams’s leadership, “patient, fair, shrewd, and kind.” Mead gave opening remarks on the Covenant of the League of Nations. The group issued the Book on the Congress to peaceful people and governments. Over the course of the Congress, Mead wrote of discussions on topics including the League of Nations, disarmament, the rights of asylum, capital punishment, socialism, trafficking in women, blockades, trade, propaganda, the rights of prisoners, education, taxation, the Red Cross, and the malnutrition of children. The group was not in total agreement that capitalism was the cause of the war, but most seemed to identify as socialists. Some argued that the League was robbing and strangling Germany. They feared the creation of Alsace-Lorraine-like areas all over Europe. Addams hoped that once the bitterness died down, a better League of Nations could be developed. Lillian Wald thought that all countries should be more concerned about child welfare, malaria, and venereal disease. Ethel Snowden criticized the Paris peace treaty because it did not work for peace, but for war, which was not what the soldiers were fighting for. Mead wrote of their society’s “birthday” and new name [Women’s International league for Peace and Freedom]. The Congress received a telegram from President Wilson and he said their message appealed to both his head and heart. After the Congress ended, Mead described a banquet with several speakers, including Jane Addams. On May 18, she traveled to Berne, then Geneva, and back to Paris, to the Hotel Petrograd. Names mentioned by Mead in the diary include: Chrystal MacMillan, Emily Greene Balch, Jeanette Rankin, Florence Kelley, Alice Thatcher Post, Lillian Wald, Madeleine Doty, Aletta Jacobs, Dr. Wilson, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Mrs. Ashton (Lord Bryce’s sister-in-law), Rosa Kulka, Lida Gustava Heymann, Catherine Marshall, Ethel Snowden, Fran Perlen, Mademoiselle La Fontaine, and Anita Augspurg.
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Collection
Women and Social Movements, International
Date Written / Recorded
May 1919, 1919
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Diary/Memoir/Autobiography
Author / Creator
Lucia True Ames Mead, 1856-1936
Person Discussed
Lucia True Ames Mead, 1856-1936
Topic / Theme
Women and Education, Women and Immigration, Peace, International Governance, and International Law, Education as a Source of Women’s Emancipation, Citizenship Rights, International Peace
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Letter from Ellen Brinton to Ella Kulka, December 18, 1939
written by Ellen Starr Brinton, 1886-1954, in Ellen Starr Brinton Papers, 1895-1980, of Swarthmore College Peace Collection (Box 1, Folder "Czechoslovakia: corres. among ESB, E.G. Balch, and Kulka, Pollak, and Siebenstein families, 1939-1941") (Swarthmore, PA) (18 December 1939) , 1 page(s)
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written by Ellen Starr Brinton, 1886-1954, in Ellen Starr Brinton Papers, 1895-1980, of Swarthmore College Peace Collection (Box 1, Folder "Czechoslovakia: corres. among ESB, E.G. Balch, and Kulka, Pollak, and Siebenstein families, 1939-1941") (Swarthmore, PA) (18 December 1939) , 1 page(s)
Collection
Women and Social Movements, International
Date Written / Recorded
18 December 1939, 1939
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Letter
Author / Creator
Ellen Starr Brinton, 1886-1954
Topic / Theme
Women and Immigration, Nationality Rights
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Letter from Ellen Brinton to Emily Balch, April 28, 1939
written by Ellen Starr Brinton, 1886-1954, in Ellen Starr Brinton Papers, 1895-1980, of Swarthmore College Peace Collection (Box 1, Folder "Czechoslovakia: corres. among ESB, E.G. Balch, and Kulka, Pollak, and Siebenstein families, 1939-1941") (Swarthmore, PA) (28 April 1939) , 2 page(s)
Brinton sent Balch letters from the Kulka family as well as papers from the Frommer family from Budapest, asking for aid in persuading the US Consul to get them visas. Brinton notes that the problem in attaining visas is quota numbers, rather than relationships in the US or finances. The Kulkas have not arrive...
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written by Ellen Starr Brinton, 1886-1954, in Ellen Starr Brinton Papers, 1895-1980, of Swarthmore College Peace Collection (Box 1, Folder "Czechoslovakia: corres. among ESB, E.G. Balch, and Kulka, Pollak, and Siebenstein families, 1939-1941") (Swarthmore, PA) (28 April 1939) , 2 page(s)
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Brinton sent Balch letters from the Kulka family as well as papers from the Frommer family from Budapest, asking for aid in persuading the US Consul to get them visas. Brinton notes that the problem in attaining visas is quota numbers, rather than relationships in the US or finances. The Kulkas have not arrived in the US and Brinton questions whether their affidavits as friends are not good enough, since they are not the Kulkas’s relatives....
Brinton sent Balch letters from the Kulka family as well as papers from the Frommer family from Budapest, asking for aid in persuading the US Consul to get them visas. Brinton notes that the problem in attaining visas is quota numbers, rather than relationships in the US or finances. The Kulkas have not arrived in the US and Brinton questions whether their affidavits as friends are not good enough, since they are not the Kulkas’s relatives. Brinton sent a letter to the Prague consul on behalf of the Kulkas but assumes it will not help. Refugees from Nazism.
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Collection
Women and Social Movements, International
Date Written / Recorded
28 April 1939, 1939
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Letter
Author / Creator
Ellen Starr Brinton, 1886-1954
Topic / Theme
Women and Immigration, Nationality Rights
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Letter from Ellen Brinton to Emily Balch, April 28, 1941
written by Ellen Starr Brinton, 1886-1954, in Ellen Starr Brinton Papers, 1895-1980, of Swarthmore College Peace Collection (Box 1, Folder "Czechoslovakia: corres. among ESB, E.G. Balch, and Kulka, Pollak, and Siebenstein families, 1939-1941") (Swarthmore, PA) (28 April 1941) , 2 page(s)
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written by Ellen Starr Brinton, 1886-1954, in Ellen Starr Brinton Papers, 1895-1980, of Swarthmore College Peace Collection (Box 1, Folder "Czechoslovakia: corres. among ESB, E.G. Balch, and Kulka, Pollak, and Siebenstein families, 1939-1941") (Swarthmore, PA) (28 April 1941) , 2 page(s)
Collection
Women and Social Movements, International
Date Written / Recorded
28 April 1941, 1941
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Letter
Author / Creator
Ellen Starr Brinton, 1886-1954
Topic / Theme
Women and Immigration, Nationality Rights
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Letter from Ellen Brinton to Emily Balch, February 3, 1939
written by Ellen Starr Brinton, 1886-1954, in Ellen Starr Brinton Papers, 1895-1980, of Swarthmore College Peace Collection (Box 1, Folder "Czechoslovakia: corres. among ESB, E.G. Balch, and Kulka, Pollak, and Siebenstein families, 1939-1941") (Swarthmore, PA) , 2 page(s)
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written by Ellen Starr Brinton, 1886-1954, in Ellen Starr Brinton Papers, 1895-1980, of Swarthmore College Peace Collection (Box 1, Folder "Czechoslovakia: corres. among ESB, E.G. Balch, and Kulka, Pollak, and Siebenstein families, 1939-1941") (Swarthmore, PA) , 2 page(s)
Collection
Women and Social Movements, International
Date Written / Recorded
1939
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Letter
Author / Creator
Ellen Starr Brinton, 1886-1954
Topic / Theme
Women and Immigration, Nationality Rights
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Letter from Ellen Brinton to Emily Balch, February 9, 1939
written by Ellen Starr Brinton, 1886-1954, in Ellen Starr Brinton Papers, 1895-1980, of Swarthmore College Peace Collection (Box 1, Folder "Czechoslovakia: corres. among ESB, E.G. Balch, and Kulka, Pollak, and Siebenstein families, 1939-1941") (Swarthmore, PA) , 2 page(s)
Written from Nerberth, Pennsylvania. Brinton agrees to sign for Ella Kulka and to find someone to sign for her cousin, in order to get them to America by the springtime. Brinton asks whether to send the papers to Balch or to Czechoslovakia. Refugees from Nazism.
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written by Ellen Starr Brinton, 1886-1954, in Ellen Starr Brinton Papers, 1895-1980, of Swarthmore College Peace Collection (Box 1, Folder "Czechoslovakia: corres. among ESB, E.G. Balch, and Kulka, Pollak, and Siebenstein families, 1939-1941") (Swarthmore, PA) , 2 page(s)
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Written from Nerberth, Pennsylvania. Brinton agrees to sign for Ella Kulka and to find someone to sign for her cousin, in order to get them to America by the springtime. Brinton asks whether to send the papers to Balch or to Czechoslovakia. Refugees from Nazism.
Collection
Women and Social Movements, International
Date Written / Recorded
1939
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Letter
Author / Creator
Ellen Starr Brinton, 1886-1954
Topic / Theme
Women and Immigration, Nationality Rights
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Letter from Ellen Brinton to Emily Balch, March 6, 1940
written by Ellen Starr Brinton, 1886-1954, in Ellen Starr Brinton Papers, 1895-1980, of Swarthmore College Peace Collection (Box 1, Folder "Czechoslovakia: corres. among ESB, E.G. Balch, and Kulka, Pollak, and Siebenstein families, 1939-1941") (Swarthmore, PA) , 2 page(s)
Brinton is concerned for Ella Kulka who faces a long delay in getting an American visa. Brinton thinks she should start looking elsewhere. Rosa Kulka now has Mrs. Lewis’s papers and hopes to see Brinton and Balch soon, but is still uneasy about ever getting to the US. The Kulkas have not heard from their famil...
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written by Ellen Starr Brinton, 1886-1954, in Ellen Starr Brinton Papers, 1895-1980, of Swarthmore College Peace Collection (Box 1, Folder "Czechoslovakia: corres. among ESB, E.G. Balch, and Kulka, Pollak, and Siebenstein families, 1939-1941") (Swarthmore, PA) , 2 page(s)
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Brinton is concerned for Ella Kulka who faces a long delay in getting an American visa. Brinton thinks she should start looking elsewhere. Rosa Kulka now has Mrs. Lewis’s papers and hopes to see Brinton and Balch soon, but is still uneasy about ever getting to the US. The Kulkas have not heard from their family in Poland. Refugees from Nazism.
Collection
Women and Social Movements, International
Date Written / Recorded
1940
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Letter
Author / Creator
Ellen Starr Brinton, 1886-1954
Topic / Theme
Women and Immigration, Nationality Rights
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Letter from Ellen Brinton to Emily Balch, October 7, 1940
written by Ellen Starr Brinton, 1886-1954, in Ellen Starr Brinton Papers, 1895-1980, of Swarthmore College Peace Collection (Box 1, Folder "Czechoslovakia: corres. among ESB, E.G. Balch, and Kulka, Pollak, and Siebenstein families, 1939-1941") (Swarthmore, PA) , 2 page(s)
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written by Ellen Starr Brinton, 1886-1954, in Ellen Starr Brinton Papers, 1895-1980, of Swarthmore College Peace Collection (Box 1, Folder "Czechoslovakia: corres. among ESB, E.G. Balch, and Kulka, Pollak, and Siebenstein families, 1939-1941") (Swarthmore, PA) , 2 page(s)
Collection
Women and Social Movements, International
Date Written / Recorded
1940
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Letter
Author / Creator
Ellen Starr Brinton, 1886-1954
Topic / Theme
Women and Immigration, Nationality Rights
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Letter from Ellen Brinton to Emily Balch, October 18, 1939
written by Ellen Starr Brinton, 1886-1954, in Ellen Starr Brinton Papers, 1895-1980, of Swarthmore College Peace Collection (Box 1, Folder "Czechoslovakia: corres. among ESB, E.G. Balch, and Kulka, Pollak, and Siebenstein families, 1939-1941") (Swarthmore, PA) (18 October 1939) , 2 page(s)
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written by Ellen Starr Brinton, 1886-1954, in Ellen Starr Brinton Papers, 1895-1980, of Swarthmore College Peace Collection (Box 1, Folder "Czechoslovakia: corres. among ESB, E.G. Balch, and Kulka, Pollak, and Siebenstein families, 1939-1941") (Swarthmore, PA) (18 October 1939) , 2 page(s)
Collection
Women and Social Movements, International
Date Written / Recorded
18 October 1939, 1939
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Letter
Author / Creator
Ellen Starr Brinton, 1886-1954
Topic / Theme
Women and Immigration, Nationality Rights
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Letter from Ellen Starr Brinton to Emily Greene Balch, March 22, 1939
written by Ellen Starr Brinton, 1886-1954, in Ellen Starr Brinton Papers, 1895-1980, of Swarthmore College Peace Collection (Box 1, Folder "Czechoslovakia: corres. among ESB, E.G. Balch, and Kulka, Pollak, and Siebenstein families, 1939-1941") (Swarthmore, PA) (22 March 1939) , 3 page(s)
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written by Ellen Starr Brinton, 1886-1954, in Ellen Starr Brinton Papers, 1895-1980, of Swarthmore College Peace Collection (Box 1, Folder "Czechoslovakia: corres. among ESB, E.G. Balch, and Kulka, Pollak, and Siebenstein families, 1939-1941") (Swarthmore, PA) (22 March 1939) , 3 page(s)
Collection
Women and Social Movements, International
Date Written / Recorded
22 March 1939, 1939
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Letter
Author / Creator
Ellen Starr Brinton, 1886-1954
Topic / Theme
Women and Immigration, Nationality Rights
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