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unveiled. In this and other regards he stands in line 

 with the Philip Snowdens, Pethick-Lawrences, Morel, 

 Charles Trevelyan, Ponsonby, Francis Neilson, and 

 Siegfried Sassoon, the soldier-poet. Another labor 

 leader, of quiet, cautious type, profoundly interested 

 in international peace, is Fred Maddison. Refer- 

 ring to Horace Bottomley's pugnacious and often 

 scurrilous journal, Maddison said to me: "One of the 

 things from which I am spared is that I don't have to 

 read John Bull!" 



Trevelyan, a young man of high promise, a lead- 

 ing Liberal in the House, left the Cabinet at the 

 onset of war along with Morley and Burns, be- 

 lieving that there should have been a more vigorous 

 attempt for mediation on the part of the British 

 government. 



Mrs. Mrs. Snowden is one of the most eloquent and 



attractive women in the range of my acquaintance. 

 In 1915 she came to the United States and gave a 

 series of admirable addresses against the theory and 

 practice of war. At my request she then spoke before 

 the National Education Association, as well as at 

 Stanford University. Later Mrs. Pethick-Lawrence, 

 likewise an eloquent speaker, instructed and inspired 

 our local audience. 



Neilson, author of "How Diplomats Make War," 

 also came to America in 1915, afterward deciding to 

 give up his seat in Parliament and remain here, the 

 outlook for freedom in England seeming to him 

 very discouraging. In this country he has taken the 

 leading part in the effort to restore civil rights unduly 

 restrained during the war, meanwhile establishing 

 The Freeman, a critical weekly opposed to all forms 

 of suppression and oppression. 



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