191 3^1 The Shadow of the Sword 



Visiting the modern art gallery of Munich, I was The glory 

 interested in certain paintings of Greek cities as war '^'^^ ^'^^ 

 left them in the Middle Ages/ stately ruins among 

 fishermen's huts. These pictures brought vividly to my 

 mind one phase of glorious war neglected by historians ! 



Further engagements in Germany were now post- 

 poned until the following summer, when it was ex- 

 pected that I should return to speak again in Munich, 

 also in Leipzig, Dresden, and Kaiserslautern, as well 

 as in Vienna. At Kaiserslautern (in the Bavarian 

 Palatinate), Dr. Ludwig Wagner regularly main- 

 tained a Summer Institute with special courses in 

 internationalism, and according to program I was to 

 speak there in July, 1914, at the annual conference 

 of the Friedensfreunde. 



In May, however, Mez wrote that it would be use- Approach 

 less for me to attempt any peace addresses in Ger- °^ '^"'^ 

 many because, during the months that had elapsed 

 since my visit to Munich the previous December, a 

 great change had come over the temper of the people, 

 and already a prevalent feeling that war was imminent 

 made cool discussion impossible; the Corda Fratres 

 world congress had been only scantily attended, and 

 the Friedensfreunde meeting would not take 

 place. Yet my Vienna friends strongly urged me to 

 come as soon as possible; but, as I shall later explain, 

 circumstances precluded another visit to Austria. 



Last year (1920) Wagner reopened his institute, and 

 again asked me to give a course on international re- 

 lations at Kaiserslautern — a request I shall probably 

 never be able to accept. 



* The series includes iEgina, Athens, Aulis, Chalcis, Copai, Corinth, Delos, 

 Eleusis, Epidaurus, Marathon, Mycenae, Naxos, Nemea, Olympia, Pharos, 

 Pronaga, Salamis, Sicyon, Sparta, Thebes, and Tiryneti. 



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