PART EIGHT, 1898–1908

LV. THE TSAR’S RESCRIPT 187

Arrival of the good tidings. Extracts from editorials in _Die Waffen nieder_. Congratulatory letters from Moritz Adler, Dr. Karl von Scherzer, Björnstjerne Björnson, Balduin Groller, Professor Martens, Prince Dolgorukof, Vice Admiral Semsey, Hedwig Pötting, Kemény, Novikof, Henri Dunant. Objections of opponents.

LVI. EVENTS AND MEETINGS 202

The Empress Elisabeth. The last days of my father-in-law. Egidy on the assassination of the Empress. Session of the delegates in Turin. Egidy evening in Vienna. Reminiscence of the campaign of 1866. William T. Stead in Vienna on his pilgrimage. His portrait. His audience with Nicholas II. His meeting with Bloch. My interview with Muravieff. Conclusion of Spanish-American treaty of peace. Reply of the chairman of the Spanish Commission to a memorial from Émile Arnaud. Still the Dreyfus affair. General Türr with King Humbert. Egidy dead. Letter from his son.

LVII. BEFORE THE HAGUE 225

Emperor Nicholas regarding the reception of his rescript. Discouragement in St. Petersburg. Stead’s project for a peace crusade. Count Muravieff’s second circular. The wedge driven into the peace question. The general conception and our conception. Journey to Berlin. Osten-Sacken. Formation of an information committee. Letter from Bebel. Service in honor of Egidy. Trip to Nice. Meeting with Madame Adam. Monsieur Catusse. A noteworthy Dreyfus reminiscence. My lecture. Madame Bashkirtseff. Trip to Cannes for a lecture. Lucien Murat’s visit. Return to Harmannsdorf. Correspondence with Bloch, Scipione Borghese, and D’Estournelles de Constant. Letters from Hodgson Pratt and Élie Ducommun. A plan of action suggested by Henri Dunant.

LVIII. THE FIRST PEACE CONFERENCE AT THE HAGUE 245

My Hague diary. Arrival. First interview. Stead’s interviews with the Tsar and with Bülow. Our call on the Austrian delegation. Divine service in the Russian chapel. Opening session. Johann von Bloch. Party at Beaufort’s. Yang-Yü and his wife. Baron d’Estournelles. Léon Bourgeois. We give a dinner. Richet’s call. Luncheon with Frau Moscheles. Andrew D. White. Extract from Staal’s opening speech. Call on our ambassador’s wife. Count Costantino Nigra. Reception at court. Lord Aberdeen. Sir Julian Pauncefote. Bloch plans a series of lectures. Plenary assembly of May 25. The Russian, English, and American motions.

LIX. THE FIRST PEACE CONFERENCE AT THE HAGUE (CONTINUED) 270

J. Novikof. Reception at the Baroness Grovestins’s. Dr. Holls. Utterances of the nationalistic press. Excursion to Scheveningen. We give a small dinner. Threatening letter to Herr von Staal. At Ten Kate’s. Reports from Descamps. Beernaert on the Geneva Convention. Letter from Levysohn. Results in the matter of mediation. New acquaintances. First of Bloch’s evening lectures: subject, “The Development of Firearms.” Stead publishes a daily chronicle on the Conference. Young Vasily’s album. Removal to Scheveningen. Baron Pirquet brings a letter from the Interparliamentary Union of Brussels. Bloch’s second lecture: subject, “Mobilization.” My birthday. Dinner at Okoliczany’s. Lieutenant Pichon. Letters from aëronauts. Discussion on the permanent tribunal. President Kruger and Sir Alfred Milner. An amusing incident. Bloch’s third lecture: subject, “Naval Warfare.” A conversation with Léon Bourgeois. His call to Paris. False reports and denials. What Emperor Nicholas said to Stead. Rumor of the blocking of the arbitration business. Bloch’s final lecture: subject, “The War of the Future.”

LX. THE FIRST PEACE CONFERENCE AT THE HAGUE (CONCLUDED) 294

Turning point in the arbitration question. Professor Zorn. Madame Ratazzi. Professor Martens. Mirza Rhiza Khan. Letter from Frau Büchner. Trip to Amsterdam. At the photographer’s. Limitation of armaments. Two important sessions. Colonel von Schwarzhoff. Limitation rejected. Baron Bildt and Bourgeois. Ball at Staal’s. The Grotius celebration. Letter from Andrew D. White. Article 27. Departure. International Inquiry Commission. Beldimann in opposition. Again the Inquiry Commission. Beldimann’s ultimatum. _Acte final._

LXI. AFTER THE HAGUE CONFERENCE 327

Journey to Norway to the ninth Interparliamentary Conference. The woman’s movement in the North. Military honors shown the friends of peace. Evening before the Conference. Björnstjerne Björnson. Opening in the Storthing. A _mot_ by Minister Steen. Report on the Nobel foundation. Garden party at Steen’s. Henrik Ibsen. At M. Catusse’s. Excursion to Frognersättern. Last session. Message from The Hague. Final banquet. Björnson as a speaker. My interview with him. Harmannsdorf again. Aunt Büschel’s death. Margarete Suttner’s betrothal. Letter from Count Apponyi. What then constituted my life. A physician’s prescription. Controversy between the jingoes and pacifists in England. End of the Dreyfus affair. Germany’s naval plan. The South African war breaks out. Letter from Count Nigra.

LXII. THE TURN OF THE CENTURY 347

1900 or 1901. Address to the Powers. Letters from Henryk Sienkiewicz. Letter from the Prince of Mingrelia. Count Apponyi’s press scheme. The Interparliamentary Conference at Paris. Count Apponyi on the Conference. Dr. Clark’s action regarding Chamberlain and President Kruger. _Altera pars._ The troubles in China. Letters from Yang-Yü to my husband. The Peace Congress at Paris. The Bloch family. Madame Séverine. The Exposition. Dinner at Professor Charles Richet’s. Miss Alice Williams. Literary work. Nomination of the Hague judges. Letters from Martens and Schönborn. D’Estournelles’s lecture in Vienna. Dr. Holls’s mission. Our silver wedding. Letter from Tolstoi. First assignment of the Nobel prizes. Dunant’s thanks. Decennial celebration of the Union. Letters of congratulation from Passy, Szell, Schönborn, D’Estournelles, Chlumecky, Rosegger, and Björnson.

LXIII. THE LAST YEAR 379

Premonitions. Bloch’s death. The Transvaal. Stanhope on the situation. My husband’s sudden illness. Three letters. Congress in Monaco. The Oceanographic Museum. Prince Albert I. The corrective. Pierre Quillard on the Armenian horrors. The crag castle. Venetian night. The Duke of Urach. From Prince Albert’s after-dinner speech. A dedication to the German Emperor. Return home. An act of D’Estournelles’s. The first controversy before the Hague Tribunal. Opening of the Bloch Museum at Lucerne. Anti-dueling League. A letter from Prince Alfonso de Borbon. Offer for a lecture tour in the United States. Hodgson Pratt on America. Visits of Emanuel Nobel and Princess Tamara of Georgia at Harmannsdorf. Sojourn in Ellischau. A surprise. Adjournment of the Interparliamentary Conference at Vienna. The end. From the will. Provisional conclusion. What is yet to follow.

SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTER, 1904

THREE WEEKS IN AMERICA 405

The Bremen Rathauskeller. The Emperor’s beaker. A peaceful voyage. A ship on fire. A curious contradiction. The Statue of Liberty. Tariff vandals. The first interviewers. First impression of New York. Old comrades. The “yellow press.” The Interparliamentary Conference. Secretary Hay’s address. Public meetings. Russia and Japan shake hands. A Chinese lady. The Boston Public Library. Sojourn in New York. The “smart set.” Carl Schurz. The Waldorf-Astoria. The worship of bigness. At the Pulitzers’. The _World_. Philadelphia. Fairmount Park. Two days in Washington. A conversation with Roosevelt. “Universal peace is coming.” A peace meeting at Cincinnati. Niagara Falls. An advertising monstrosity. A visit in Ithaca.

INDEX 431