CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR 



AT Miilhausen Guerard left for Paris, while Edith 

 and her friend proceeded to Venice and Dalmatia 

 en route to India. The rest of us now also moved on, 

 first to Baden in Aargau, thence to Zurich, and finally 

 to Wesen on the Wallensee in the canton of St. Gallen. 

 Here in the comfortable hotel, "Schloss Menahalde," 

 overlooking the lake, I wrote up my notes on Alsace, 

 and prepared two chapters of a proposed book re- 

 quested by Doubleday, Page & Co., entitled "What 

 Europe Thinks of Us." This was to be based on 

 expressed but unpublished opinions of representative 

 men in different nations, and to conclude with an 

 exposition or defense of Democracy. 



From Baden and Zurich I had sent out many letters 

 to friends as well as to various persons of prominence, 

 and returns were now coming in. The two install- 

 ments forwarded from Switzerland appeared later in 

 The World's Work; but with the onset of war, the 

 task being still incomplete, I suspended further effort, 

 as all previous conceptions of America had been 

 submerged in the varied emotions excited by the 

 conflict. 



Le Meanwhile I received and accepted an invitation 



from Norman Angell to attend a week's conference 

 called by him under the auspices of the Garton 

 Foundation of London at the "Hotel des Anglais" 

 at Le Touquet, a seaside resort in Picardy. 



Traveling to Paris I broke my journey at the spir- 

 ited town of Belfort, all that remained to France of 



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