[2] She wrote articles on the humanitarian crisis[3] and kept up correspondence with friends back in America during this time, including Beulah Hurley Waring.

[citation needed] Her editorial board included American communist writer Myra Page.

In September 1939, Whittaker Chambers mentioned Smith in connection with Abt to Adolf Berle.

[8] While in Moscow in the early 1920s, Smith met Harold Ware, an agricultural expert and socialist.

[1] She had a "deep commitment to American-Soviet friendship... continuously demonstrated by staunch support of the program of the National Council."