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tongue. In the pages which follow his name will 

 frequently appear, as our association became in- 

 creasingly intimate. 



With Mez, Krause, Redslob, Dimgern, and Butte, The law 

 I one day spent a few hours in the Nuremberg Thier- 

 garten discussing the future of international law, 

 " the coming science." Lawless nationalism, we agreed, 

 could not endure, and some form of orderly com- 

 munity of nations must take its place. 



Mez was introduced to me by Fraulein Anna B. 

 Eckstein of Coburg, an energetic and devoted young 

 woman who had taught German in Boston. There 

 she met and interested Mr. Ginn, who commissioned 

 her to go on with her favorite scheme, the preparation 

 of a monstrous petition bearing a million signatures 

 in favor of international peace and arbitration. In 

 that connection she gave many acceptable addresses 

 in England, Germany, and France. 



The presiding officer at the congress was Dr. Nippoid 

 Otfried Nippoid of Frankfort, who had just then 

 published a remarkable pamphlet entitled Der Deut- 

 sche Chauvinismus (German Chauvinism). This was 

 intended as an antidote to the fiction prevalent in 

 Germany that all danger of war lay in the chauvin- 

 ism of the Paris boulevards, that France was eager 

 to fight, and that the Fatherland was patiently and 

 steadfastly holding up the banner of peace. Natu- 

 rally one had not to search long in the Paris press for 

 expressions of revanche, but Nippoid demonstrated 

 conclusively - - what few Germans realized - - that 

 their press was still more violent and that the sub- 

 sidized journals nearest the throne, especially such 

 papers as the Deutsche Tageszeitung, Lokal Anzeiger, 

 Morgenpost, Kreuzzeitung, and other semi-official 



