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Rostock, Dr. Hermann Krause, formerly a student 

 in Columbia and Harvard, then professor in the 

 University of Leipzig and author of an elaborate 

 treatise on the Monroe Doctrine, and Dr. Carl von 

 Diingern, an aristocratic junker from the University 

 of Czernowitz, interested in world peace like the 

 rest of us. To his mind, however, Roumania was 

 justified in her attack on Bulgaria, it being the 

 general desire of Europe that Bulgaria should not 

 dominate the Balkans. 

 John Mez But to mc the most interesting of all the young 

 fellows was John Mez, a native of Freiburg, a doctor 

 of philosophy in Economics from Heidelberg, who 

 had spent much time in England, where his Swiss 

 mother was educated. At the Congress of the Corda 

 Fratres, or World Union of University Cosmopolitan 

 Clubs, held at Cornell in 191 2, he had been elected 

 second president in succession to Dr. George W. 

 Nasmyth, a brilliant and devoted advocate of peace, 

 then a teacher of Physics at Cornell, later attached to 

 the World Peace Foundation. 



Mez was now serving as economic expert to the 

 city of Munich, intending afterward to begin his 

 professional career as privat-dozent at either Zurich 

 or Munich. Zurich he rather preferred because of its 

 free, unbureaucratic air. A thoroughgoing democrat, 

 with no leanings toward Socialism, he held unpopular 

 views without flinching, for his opinions were grounded 

 on profound study. While not excelling in erudition 

 some of the other young professors in the group, he 

 possesses a better sense of proportion and a quality 

 of long vision very unusual among educated men in 

 any country. He is also an excellent linguist, speaking 

 English, French, and Spanish besides his mother 



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