The Days of a Man [1920 



Grelling, the author of "J'accuse," a member of the Peace 

 Society since 1892, was accused of high treason and all his 

 property in Germany was confiscated. [Wilhelm] Muehlon is 

 broken in spirit. [Friedrich W.] Forster has faced the hatred 

 of his colleagues in the University and the defiance of the whole 

 German press. Umfrid, pastor in Stuttgart, has been forbidden 

 to write, and Lyda Gustava Heymann was banished from 

 Munich. Younger pacifists, not yet well known, have been 

 sent to jail and some of them have fled to neutral lands. The 

 list might be much longer. It is enough to know that German 

 opposition to this war has lived, worked, and done its part 

 against the rule of militarism. They have been true to their 

 principles even as their colleagues in other lands, and under 

 difficulties far greater for the most part. 



In 1917 Professor Hermann Fernau, a lifelong and 

 consistent opponent of German Imperialism, pub- 

 lished an indictment entitled " Royalty Is War/' x 

 He thus held responsible, not finance or armament 

 makers or manufacturers or intellectuals, but solely 

 the aristocrats, the " East-Elbe Junkers," at the head 

 of which stood the Kaiser and his family: 



The German nobility contained only 150,000 barons as 

 against 66,000,000 plain citizens. But in their hands rested 

 every matter of importance. Germany (and with her all Europe) 

 found herself placed between the alternative of eliminating the 

 supreme power of this class or being crushed by it. The freedom 

 of Germany could be obtained only by the abdication of the 

 Hohenzollerns. The political problem was not "how to convert 

 the Hohenzollerns to democracy," but how to get rid of them. 

 Events have shown that the German people can regain their 

 liberties only by framing a republic. 



3 



In 1920 Scudder Klyce, a retired naval officer long 

 interested in scientific subjects, began the private 



1 "Das Konigtum ist der Krieg." 



