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be Prussians, the Germans because they wanted to be 

 Swiss. At Kleinbasel (on the Baden side of the Rhine) Envious 

 there is said to be a town clock from which, on the ^^"^^"^^^ 

 hour, a small wooden figure appears to make a face 

 at its big Swiss rival and then retire. 



From Wesen I drove with Eric up the Linththal into 

 Canton Glarus, where I showed him the huge snowy 

 crest of the Titlis, crowning summit of the Glarner 

 Alps. The next day we all visited the little independ- The utiu 

 ent principality of Liechtenstein, fifteen miles long ^"''^ 

 and two or three wide, which stretches along the stein 

 Rhine between the river and the sharp cliffs of the 

 Rhaticon. This tiny state has long maintained its 

 independence under the shadow of Austria, having 

 been forgotten by the treaty makers in 1878. 



Meanwhile I had accepted an invitation to a 

 congress of the Friedensfreunde (Friends of Peace), 

 set for the first week in October at Nuremberg. 

 There I met several prominent Democrats (not 

 Socialists), besides others interested in lasting peace, 

 the purpose of the gathering being to humanize wonhy 

 German relations with Britain, clasp hands with ':ff°^' 

 France across the bloody mountains of the Vosges, 

 and in general express the peaceful disposition of south- 

 ern and western Germany — an attitude sharply con- 

 trasting with that of the saber-rattling Pangermanist 

 League. Leading spirits were Sieper and Schlumberger, 

 of whose efforts in behalf of conciliation I have already 

 written. The only other American present was George 

 C. Butte, now professor of Law in the University of 

 Texas, then a student at Heidelberg. 



Among the young men attending were certain 

 teachers of International Law, these being Dr. Robert 

 Redslob, an Alsatian, professor in the University of 



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