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This is CBS I in the World. I'm John Bachelord with Neil Langtow. His new book is The

Approaching Storm. Roosevelt Wilson, Adams and their clash over America's future. The Great

War, then called, now we call it the First World War, the first of the tragedies to tear

apart Europe, ongoing, tearing apart sovereignty and boundaries. These are the empires who

engaged in challenges to each other for the 19th century and then with the new technology

of mass murder engaged in frontier fighting, beginning in the summer and fall of 1914.

The front lines have now stabilized. It's early 1915. America has stayed back from the

war. Wilson has concerns of domestic politics and does not see any place in Europe for America.

However, Jane Adams, we will speak of her first, sees the massacres going on in Europe

and responds with peace conferences or there's very careful language here. Let's begin

in January of 1915. Jane Adams calls the Women's Peace Party at the Willard Hotel. Is this

popular with progressives, Neil?

Well, it's an interesting thing. This establishment of what's called the Women's Peace Party, many

American women seem to be okay with it. I think she tried to cast a fairly wide net because

she invited conservative American women to attend this conference like for example, women

in the daughters of the American Revolution. Then she also invited women who would probably

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