This is CBS, I Am the World, I'm John Bachelorette 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, and 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, and she also invited women who

would probably be seen on the fairly far left.

So the Women's Peace Party was seen as almost a pressure group for peace in the United States.

I think it was accepted by most people, as long as they weren't getting into fairly

controversial issues, or really questioning the direction of American foreign policy.

But once Jane Adams and some of her followers start to do that, and eventually they're going

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