19133 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.^ 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 O. Umfrid, aged and Parson 

 nearly blind,^ presided at my meeting, in which he '^"'^" 

 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 



iSee Chapter XLiv, page 522. 



2 Since deceased. See Chapter LV, page 768. 



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