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sented to President Coolidge and were published under the titie "Occupied subsequently, under President Hoover, such an inquiry was undertaken. The findings of this official commission, which coincided closely with those of th. W. I. L., resulted in the withdrawal of the marines and new treaty arrange- ments.d The W.I. L.policy of combasting imperialism has found additional results.d Professor Francis B. Sayre of the Harvard Law School, who was later appointed Assistant Secretary of State by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, was widely circulated by our group, laying tne foundation for the understanding of months before M. Briand made his proposal which led to the Peace Pact.. In the same year thirty thousand signatues were collected, asking President Coolidge to initiate the treaties for the outlawry, of war. At the presentation of these to the President he announced his intention of beginning conversations with M. Briand on the subject of an outlawry of war treaty. The W.I.L. continued pressing this matter until it was finally brought to a successful con- clusion in i929, with ratification by the Senate of the Kellogg-Briand Pact. It was in 1927 also that a threatened war with Mexico was stopped in the. nick of time, our army turned back from its journey to the border, by the concerted protests of pacifists all over ibe country. An interim Congress met in Honolulu in the summer of 1928. The. following winter the W.i.L. helped in the work that brought about the cutting of the cruiser-building program from sesenty-one to ffteen, and influenced the abandonment of two imperialistic loans, the Manchurian loan to Japan and the Cumberland proposal for a loan to Nicaragua. The Sixth Congress, meeting in Prague in 1929, was marked by the. of an executive committee to succeed her.. Miss Addams was elected and The W. I. L. had long advocated a general disarmament conference.. In 1932 this finally came to pass in Geneva. To this Conference pacifists brought Over eight million signatures on petitions for disarmament. Of these, six million, for total and universal disarmament, had Seen collected by W I. L.' workers, by ceaseless activity in many countries. In America a Peace Caravan started at Los Angeles, traveled ten thousand miles in a progress across the country. holding meetings and gathering signatures, and finaly.arrived in Washington with a great escort of cars.. The East Room of the White House was crowded op to President Hoover. The petitions were later taken to Geneva for the opening of the Disarmament Conference. Jane Addams with Mrs. Franklin D. Rooseveit and Mrs. Hannah Clothier Hul at the dinner held in her honor on May 2, 1935, in Washington, D. C. commemorating the twentieth annivereary of the League.