{"value"=>"<p>Following the International Congress of Women at The Hague, Schwimmer joined with the Americans Jane Addams, Emily Greene Balch, and Julia Grace Wales; English suffragette Chrystal Macmillan; Dutch feminist Aletta Jacobs, and several others to travel to fourteen European countries, in order to meet with diplomats to discuss the possibility of armistice. Their success in obtaining signed statements agreeing to accept compromise if proposed by a neutral party encouraged Schwimmer in her plans for mediation. She used the statements to convince Henry Ford to finance the Ford Peace Expedition and the ensuing Neutral Conference for Continuous Mediation.</p> <p>Schwimmer's involvement with the 1915 Ford Peace Expedition and 1916 Neutral Conference for Continuous Mediation is documented within this series. Materials consist of Schwimmer's own papers as well as materials she collected in the years following the events.</p> <p>The records include correspondence, notes, minutes, press releases, daily bulletins, lists of participants and their biographies, and miscellaneous items generated by the Peace Expedition and Neutral Conference. Materials collected at a later date are labeled \"Ford Peace Expedition aftermath,\" and consist of newspaper clippings and printed matter, correspondence, Peace Ship reminiscences written by the Lloyd children and other expedition participants, and Ford Peace Expedition anniversary materials.</p> <p>While the Ford Peace Expedition materials do not document the pre-voyage preparation in great detail, they do represent daily discussions and resolutions taken during the expedition and conference; disagreements and the subsequent development of opposing camps; and Schwimmer's role in each of these events. Anniversary files on the expedition include \"then and now\" biographical data on many participants.</p> <p>Researchers are advised that the best source for detailed information on the operations and finances of the Ford Peace Expedition and Neutral Conference may be Lewis Maverick's records in the Ford Peace Expedition Participants' Papers. For documentation of the numerous speeches and statements made on the excursion, as well as lists of journalists onboard, see Ellis O. Jones's records in the same collection.</p> <p>Previously, Schwimmer's Ford Peace Expedition records were arranged with the related papers of other participants. The papers of these other participants have been removed and are accessible in the following collections:</p> <p>--Ford Peace Expedition Participants' Papers, NYPL Manuscripts and Archives (Emily Greene Balch, Ellis O. Jones, Lewis Lochner, Lewis Maverick, Naima Sahlbom)</p> <p>--Katherine Leckie Papers, NYPL, Manuscripts and Archives</p> <p>--Ernest Mandel Papers, NYPL, Manuscripts and Archives.</p>"}