The Days of a Ma?i 



C1913 



A breezy 



diplomat 



sided over the tea table as my pleasant acquaintance 

 from Pasadena, and it transpired that she herself 

 was Lady Darwin. 

 A consist- At "the Grelix" I also met Dr. Gutmann, the 

 ent journal scholarly Correspondent of the Frankfurter Zeitung, 

 for many years the sanest newspaper in Germany and 

 apparently the most widely read, especially among 

 business men. It was then and evidently still is 

 opposed to German militarism and to the imperialistic 

 schemes of Pangermanists and junkers, occupying 

 much the same place in German journalism as the 

 Manchester Guardian in England, or the Springfield 

 Republican in the United States. 



Adolphe Brezet, the foreign minister and financial 

 agent of the "Republic of Counani, " was introduced 

 to us at a "Grelix" musicale. Later I learned upon 

 inquiry that Moscheles knew nothing about his 

 extraordinary guest, who had in fact requested that 

 he might be allowed to come that afternoon in order 

 to see me. He was a pushing and plausible promoter 

 with a varied experience in Africa, but then repre- 

 senting "His Excellency, Presidio Lopez, President 

 of Counani." It also appeared that the new state 

 (of which I had never before heard) was to be carved 

 out of the coastwise part of Brazil lying to the north 

 of the Amazon — a heavily wooded, scantily inhabited 

 region only waiting to declare itself independent 

 when the government at Rio Janeiro should be busy 

 with other matters ! 



During my conversation with Brezet, Dr. Oliveira 

 Lima, then Brazilian minister to Belgium, came into 

 the room. I knew Lima well as a friend of Branner, 

 at whose suggestion I had invited him to give a 

 course of lectures at Stanford on the history and 



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