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sented to President Coolidge and were published under the title “Occupied Haiti.” They advised particularly that an official inquiry be authorized, and subsequently, under President Hoover, such an inquiry was undertaken. The findings of this official commission, which coincided closely with those of the w. ba L., resulted in the withdrawal of the marines and new treaty arrange- ents. | The W. 1. L. policy of comba:ting imperialism has found additional expression in action in regard to Cuba, Nicaragua, and Liberia, with important res _ _ Professor Francis B. Sayre of the Harvard Law School, who was later appointed Assistant Secretary of State by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, was asked by the W. J. L. in 1927 to draft a model arbitration treaty. This was widely circulated by our group, laying tne foundation for the understanding of the Kellogg-Briand Pact. Mr. Sayre’s raodel was actually being circulated six months before M. Briand made his proposal which led to the Peace Pact. In the same year thirty thousand signatures 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 Ww. lw. continued pressing this matter until it was finally brought to a successful con- clusion in 1929, 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 ise 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 seventy-one to fifteen, 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 resignation of Miss Addams as International President and the appointment of an executive committee to succeed her. Miss Addams was elected and remained until her death, Honorary International President. 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 been 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 finally arrived in Washington with a great escort of cars. The East Room of the White House was crowded with women from many states as bundle after bundle of petitions was passed pp to President Hoover. The petitions were later taken to Geneva for the opening of the Disarmament Conference. Jane Addams with Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mra. Hannah Clothier Hull at the dinner held in her honor on May 2, 1935, in Washington, D. C., commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the League.