CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE 



FROM Ragusa we sailed back to Trieste and Venice, 

 and went by rail across the hills to Arco. Thence, on 

 November 4, I left for Germany and England to give 

 the prearranged lectures in various cities. Rottcher, 1 A brave 

 as already indicated, took charge of arrangements in disci P le 

 Germany. Upon my return from England a month 

 later, he had removed to Stuttgart, the center of the 

 South German Peace Association. During the war 

 he had a distressing time, as did all his fellows - opposed 

 to imperialism; he was forced into the army but sur- 

 vived the ordeal, and has staunchly stood for de- 

 mocracy and personal freedom through the confusing 

 period following the Armistice. 



My talks on "War and Manhood" I gave in At 

 what I prayerfully thought to be the German^ Ian- 

 guage. 3 The first was delivered before a fair audience 

 in the town hall of Wiesbaden, a beautiful, fashion- 

 able city. My hearers were attentive even if singu- 

 larly undemonstrative, and as the local papers gave 

 accurate accounts of the meeting I assume that the 

 people knew what I was talking about. I also believe 

 that no foreigner had before ventured to criticize the 

 "Kriegsystem" in German in an open gathering, 

 Norman Angell's earlier addresses of the same tenor 

 having been interpreted to university audiences. 



1 See Chapter XLIV, page 522. 



2 See Chapter LV, page 767. 



3 A condensation of this discourse, prepared at the time for the Associa- 

 tion, will be found in Appendix E of the present volume (page 799). 



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