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Q. Who founded the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom? S.T., Chatham

A. The league was an outgrowth of the International Congress of Women at The Hague in 1915 and was spearheaded by social worker Jane Addams and Boston economics professor Emily Greene Balch, a former social worker. Addams was the league's first president, and Balch was its secretary-treasurer. The latter's pacifism deepened during World War I, when she served ...

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