The Days of a Man 1913 



Le Mouvement Pacifist?, a man of large stature and 

 determined character, who died suddenly at a 

 meeting of his Bureau in 1914. "If one would find a 

 great nation in Europe he must look among the small 

 ones," said he. In other words the great nations were 

 armament-mad, wasting their substance in piling 

 up combustibles; the small ones, having no military 

 ambitions, devoted themselves to education, in- 

 dustry, and the normal business of government. 

 Gobat's booklet, " Le Cauchemar de I' Europe" (The 

 Nightmare of Europe), published about that time, 

 gave a vivid account of the relations of Alsace- 

 Lorraine. 



Another notable figure was the jocund Monsignor 

 Alexander Giesswein of Budapest, a leader of the 

 Catholic Church in Hungary. A big, picturesque 

 figure, he continued to stand unflinchingly for con- 

 ciliation through all the calamities which beset 

 Hungary after the Armistice. 



During the conference, Ferris distributed copies of 

 his trenchant indictment of the English armament 

 "ring," showing the astounding extent to which shares 

 were held by the aristocracy and leaders in the 

 Established Church. 



A superb From The Hague Mrs. Jordan and I made a hasty 

 work of flight to Amsterdam just to see Rembrandt's superb 

 "Night Watch," which we knew only from photo- 

 graphs. For Europe meant more to us than a series of 

 battlefields past and future; it was a world of gifted 

 men who have embodied in art their noblest con- 

 ceptions. The next day we went on to Antwerp, 

 where the " Descent from the Cross" is the glory of 

 the great Cathedral; but to my mind Rubens, painter 



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