1913;] Return to Germany 



My British tour ended, we went without stop to 

 Mannheim, where I was due for my third lecture 

 under Rottcher's direction. On the way through 

 Belgium we occupied a compartment with an English- 

 man and his family, including a son from Oxford. 

 The gentleman explained that he himself, his father, 

 and his grandfather had all been educated at Oxford, 

 and though they there got "the worst teaching any- 

 where in the world/' he felt that his own son must 

 continue the tradition. 



In Mannheim we were the guests of Von Harmer, 

 whom I had met at Nuremberg. 1 At Stuttgart where 

 we were entertained at a hotel by a devoted member 

 of my audience I found a distinctively democratic 

 spirit. There the noted Parson 0. Umfrid, aged and Parson 

 nearly blind, 2 presided at my meeting, in which he Um * n 

 showed great interest, having been for fifty years an 

 active worker for peace. A staunch Lutheran also, 

 he was at that time torn by conflicting emotions 

 because Dr. Westphal, till recently secretary of the 

 Peace Society, had just joined Ostwald's " Aus der 

 Kirche" movement and had therefore been asked to 

 tender his resignation to Umfrid a regrettable but 

 necessary incident. Curiously enough, Rottcher, 

 who was chosen to succeed Westphal, is a Freidenker, 

 and never belonged to any church! 



In Munich, the University halls not being available Munich 

 for political discussion, Sieper and Mez engaged a 

 large restaurant which they closed to the public for 

 the evening's program, a dinner followed by addresses 



1 See Chapter XLIV, page 522. 



2 Since deceased. See Chapter LV, page 768. 



