Catt, Carrie Chapman GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE Taft, William Howard

Hon. W H Taft,
Yale University
New Haven Conn
*(Perhaps there is a better
address than this)
Nov, 1920
Mid Ocean*
My dear Mr. Taft -
I thank you most sincerely for your
books on the League of Nations. Those papers previously
distributed I have read, but I am exceedingly
glad to possess the volume containing
your autograph.
I have tried to keep up with the
controversy on both sides and to my mind
the situation resolves itself with this: the
radicals half is, socialists and near socialists
profess no fault in it because it is the imperialistic
and capitalistic, beef behind these liars there is
something more—a desire to substitute dired
return, as workingmen in H [B?] are
organizing to do and in where words to keep
on with their own program. The conservatives
with the lawyers of their class argued them

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find the plan too imperialistic also but
behind their arguments one recognizes the
type of mental action belonging to the conservatives
that is “let us go back to our former isolation,” the
League plan should have been postponed etc.
The masses of our people are wholly befogged
By the discussion and there remain only the more
Understanding ones of the middle moders
to defend ratification of the League Treaty.
The situation is psychological now and [involves] is
a contest between those who have faith in the
sincerity of the pledges of their fellow men and allied nations.
We look to you to find the plan and
the time to apply the entering words to
a thoroughly difficult situation. It was your idea after all. When
and if I can be of assistance at any time command
me.
Very sincerely Yours
Signed Carrie Chapman Catt
by Mrs. Shuler
*Thanksgiving Day 1920
Mid Atlantic Ocean.*

Commencement Program

Saturday, June 6
5.00 P.M.—THE PRESIDENT’S GARDEN PARTY FOR THE SENIORS AND COLLEGE GUESTS.
8.00 P.M.—FINAL PLAY.

Sunday, June 7
11.00 A.M.—BACCALAUREATE SERMON
The Reverend William Henry Boddy, D.D.,
Westminster Presbyterian Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
5.00 P.M.—STEP SINGING.
6.00 P.M.—VESPERS, in the Dell, President Glass.
10.30 P.M.—LANTERN NIGHT.

Monday, June 8 - Alumnae Day
1.00 P.M.—COLLEGE LUNCHEON FOR THE GRADUATES, ALUMNAE, FACULTY AND GUESTS.
2.00 P.M.—ALUMNAE MEETING, Fletcher Auditorium.
7.00 P.M.—ALUMNAE BANQUET FOR THE SENIORS, The Refectory.

Tuesday, June 9
10.00 A.M.—COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES:
ADDRESS, Mrs Carrie Chapman Catt.
CONFERRING OF DEGREES.

The Faculty
and Senior Class
of
Sweet Briar College
request the honor of your presence
at their
Twenty-seventh Commencement
June sixth to ninth
Nineteen thirty-six
Sweet Briar, Virginia

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