This is CBSI on the World. I'm John Batchel with Neil Langtoe.

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.

Then 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 to go to Europe to attend another conference, then you're going to start seeing a great deal of criticism of Adams and really her

reputation is going to suffer in the United States a great deal because she is seen as moving

beyond her place as sort of a, as I said, a social worker, someone who was concerned about,

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