Women's International League Supports Kellogg-Briand

The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, founded in 1915 and led in its early years by figures such as Jane Addams, was a prominent supporter of efforts to outlaw war through international agreement. The organization backed the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, the treaty in which the United States, France, and other signatory nations renounced war as an instrument of national policy. The league saw such agreements as steps toward its broader goal of a peaceful, just international order.

Through its advocacy, the league reflected the significant role women's organizations played in the interwar peace movement. Many of its members favored keeping the United States out of foreign entanglements, and the group remained active in pacifist and anti-war causes through the period leading up to the Second World War. Its work demonstrated how women, even before achieving full political equality, organized to shape national debates over war, peace, and foreign policy.