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on earth seemed more peaceful than Styria's fair 

 meadows browsed by contented herds. People who 

 attend to their own affairs grow prosperous and never 

 clamor for war. This little talk seemed to please and 

 earned a special commendation from the Hungarian 

 Minister of Education. 



On this occasion I was fortunate in being called on A "joiiy- 

 early. The smart set of Gratz became boundlessly up " 

 enthusiastic with champagne before dinner was over, 

 but I waited until eleven to hear my neighbor, Sir 

 Sidney F. Harmer, the competent successor of Dr. 

 Giinther as Keeper of the British Museum. To for- 

 eign naturalists speaking English or French the young 

 people at the other tables were increasingly uncivil, 

 and when the banquet was over gave themselves up 

 to alcoholic revelry. 



While still in Gratz I had a visit from Fried, at that Fried and 

 time almost the only man in Europe devoting himself ((* . 

 wholly to the cause of peace. Simple-hearted, warte " * 

 straightforward, and sagacious, he possesses large 

 constructive and journalistic ability, and I came to 

 value him highly as a co-worker. 1 As editor and pub- 

 lisher of a magazine, Friedenswarte ("Watch Tower 

 of Peace"), he was exhausting his physical energy 

 and all available means. Afterward he received half 

 the Nobel prize for 1911, $20,000, this being one of 

 the cases in which it was deservedly given. For a 

 while, therefore, he was able effectively to continue 

 his work notwithstanding political embarrassments. 



1 Fried died on May 24, 1921, at the age of fifty-seven, the victim of broncho- 

 pneumonia, aggravated by lack of food. Carl Heath of London writes of visiting 

 him in the Vienna hospital. "He was obviously dying, but with a smile he 

 sent his greetings to all his many friends. He is another peace victim of the 

 war, and his death is a severe loss to the German pacifists and to the movement 

 generally." (National Peace Council, June, 1921.) 



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