The Days of a Man [^1913 



he Mouvemeni Pacijiste^ 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. 

 Giesswein Auothcr uotablc figurc 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, Perris 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. 



work of 

 art 



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

 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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