Ways of War and Peace

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Austrian Delia. Ways of War and Peace

FOREWORD

STUDENTS' HOSTEL IN PARIS

PARIS, PAST AND PRESENT

HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE A REFUGEE?

WHAT MOBILIZATION MEANS

THE PRICE OF WAR AND THE PRICE OF PEACE

SOME QUESTIONS ANSWERED AS TO THE CAUSES OF THE WAR

WHAT THE WORLD-WAR WILL MEAN TO WOMANKIND

ASK YOUR AMERICAN FRIENDS HOW IT FEELS TO BE WITHOUT MONEY

WHAT THE QUEEN OF HOLLAND IS DOING TO PRESERVE PEACE

WHAT ROYAL WOMEN ARE DOING WHILE THEIR HUSBANDS ARE AT WAR

WHAT WILL THE ROYAL CHILDREN DO IF THEIR PARENTS ARE PUT OUT OF BUSINESS?

THE GERMAN EMPEROR AT CLOSE RANGE

WILLIAM II AT CLOSE RANGE

KING GEORGE V, HEAD OF THE ALLIES

TWO RUSSIAN CITIES

CHRISTMAS WITHOUT A SANTA CLAUS

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As I advance in years I look upon life as a good deal of a paradox; at times it seems to be a mass of contradictions of love and hate, of friendship and enmity, of truths and falsehoods, of war and peace. In the same flash of time countries are throttling others; other nations are straining themselves not only to soften the hardships created by an international war, but to help feed, care for and dry the tears made by the havoc of slaughter.

A most striking instance of this statement happened a few days before the outbreak of the war. Through a mutual friend, while in Bavaria, I learned that Miss Anna Eckstein, an American woman, who has devoted her life to the world's peace movement was visiting her home in Coburg Saxe-Weimar. It was a short distance from where I was staying, and I asked Miss Eckstein if she would come to me. The answer to my invitation was that much as she would love to see me we should have to defer our meeting to some other time. She was starting to make a tour of the Rhine cities, where she was going to give important talks on the work that was being done to encourage the world's peace. This would take most of her time until the early fall, when she was going to a peace congress in Vienna. She said that I might help her by forming two local centers in Chicago for the signing of many petitions pledging ourselves for the peace idea platform. I had not much more than read this letter and put the petitions away for safekeeping when the word came that the great war was declared.

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He was also a friend and admirer of Samuel B. Capen, the head of one of the two chief Boston peace societies. Mr. Capen was president of the Massachusetts Peace Society, and also a trustee of the World Foundation. It was as a representative of the World Peace Foundation that Mr. Capen went on his journey around the world.

Edwin D. Mead is also one of the great pioneers in America's earnest effort that has worked incessantly for international peace. He was at one of the peace congresses in Europe when the war broke out. He has been one of the prime movers of the Boston Peace Society, and president of the organization. He has attended most of the important congresses in this country and in Europe. It was also through his efforts that a branch of the National Peace Movement was founded in Chicago.

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