International Parliamentary Union 



Accompanied by Mrs. Fannie Fern Andrews I Passy 

 went to Neuilly-sur-Seine to see Frederic Passy, the 

 veteran pacifist who, with Randall Cramer of Lon- 

 don, had founded the International Parliamentary 

 Union after the Treaty of Frankfort in 1871. This 

 body included representatives from all congresses, 

 parliaments, and governing groups of the world, its 

 purpose being to bring about rational relations among 

 the great powers. The first meeting of the Union 

 being called at Berlin, all but one of the depucies of 

 France refused to attend; they would not go to 

 Prussia to find themselves and their nation insulted! 

 But Passy took a broader view; "I will go to Berlin," 

 he said, "and I shall not be insulted." I remember 

 viewing with emotion a photograph he showed us of 

 the meeting, for there in the central seat, the place of 

 honor, appeared the brave French delegate who went 

 to do his part in the work for better understanding. 



As we drove toward Neuilly I happened to notice Scotland 

 on the sidewalk two Stanford students, Leland Stan- upson 

 ford Scott and Burchill Upson, and invited them to 

 get in with us, an invitation they promptly accepted. 

 But that I, the president of their university, should 

 recognize the youths and ask them to join me, greatly 

 surprised Mrs. Andrews, who said that such a thing 

 would be "impossible" with an Eastern university 

 president. As to that, I thought it a matter of tem- 

 perament, not at all of geography. 



In Paris a formal luncheon was given to Mrs. 

 Andrews, as head of the American School Peace 

 League, by a group of local teachers and pacifists of 

 whom Ferdinand Buisson, the accomplished minister 

 of education, was then a leader. This affair was of 

 great interest to us as showing the point of view of 



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