The Days of a Man 1913 



dean of the American delegation, and in the absence 

 of Dr. Benjamin F. Trueblood, the venerable presi- 

 dent of the American Peace Society, then dangerously 

 ill, was also asked to take his place for the time being 

 on the International Peace Bureau at Berne, pub- 

 lishers of Le Mouvement Pacifiste. 



At the various meetings we met many old friends 

 and made a number of new acquaintances. Among 

 the latter was Baron S. A. Korff, a young man of 

 marked ability and agreeable personality, then 

 professor of Russian Public Law in the University of 

 Helsingfors, now for some time a resident of New 

 York and lecturer at Columbia and other institutions. 

 The siay- James Luther Slayden, Congressman from San 

 Antonio, Texas, and his gifted wife, and the Jacques 

 Schlumbergers of Guebwiller, Alsace, we have ever 

 since counted in our list of valued friends. In 1916 

 Slayden became president of the American Peace 

 Society, of which Arthur Deerin Call has for many 

 years been secretary. In the beautiful Schlumberger 

 home, "Aux Rosiers," we later passed a delight- 

 ful and informing day. During a part of the war this 

 fresh, sunny house was commandeered by the Germans 

 as a hospital and then duly rifled of movables accord- 

 ing to Teutonic custom, though not materially 

 damaged. 



Dr. Ruyssen 1 took a very active part in the 

 congress, and as chairman of the committee on 

 resolutions brought in a report characterizing the 

 Balkan atrocities as inoui, "unheard of!" To this 



1 After leaving the Hague congress, Ruyssen together with some other 

 pacifists went to Alsace to inaugurate a Peace Society. In this work Ruyssen was 

 so successful as to receive an ovation from his colleagues in the University of 

 Bordeaux, and to have his windows broken by the war-mad mob of his city. 

 See also Chapter xxxvn, pages 321 and 322. 



