The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-12-22

He had changed his mind some
what in the spring of 1915, when he
insisted that Germany had no de-
sire to dominate the world. He be-
lieved there would be few changes in
frontier lines after the war.
In a book he published at this time,
1.-The Peace and America" the writer
urged a UNITED States of Europe"
In his closing chapter entitled "To-
morrow he gave his views in part
as follows:
'sThe war came more quickly than
anyone had thought possible; perhaps
it may erd as quickly too
tWill the future be pacifcist or bel
ligerent? Those who know the laws
of the mind can well understand that
the appalling horrors of this world
war will deeply impress the soul of
every one who lives through it and
that their children and children's
children will still be haunted by the
CHASTITY spectors of the battlefield.
There will be fear Of war and a
craving for peace"
For @United States of Europe"
After speaking of the fact that
there ares but few pure races in Eu-
rope, Prof. Muensterberg said: ''The
United States of Europe must be the
next goal, and not a few expect to
see this new republic develop in the
midst of a peace conference with the
lightning speed with which the
Chinese Republic was established.
"The United States of Europe
would once for all expel war from
European soil.
"The first Punic war was followed
by second and a third. Yet on both
sides the Nations at war to-day feel
that their struggle would be meaning
less if they cannot bring home from
the battlefield assurance of peace for
at least 10 years.
Every nation is ready to drench
the soil with her blood because she
hopes that from such ground the
olive trees of the future will grow
more beautiful than ever. Every
Frenchman and every Englishman
dreams that this is war against
war-making, and that if they win
peace will be secured forever from
the mettlesome mi1itarism of Ger
many.
"In the isame way the humblest
German soldier writes from the
trenches his trust that, Germany will
not close the war until century of
peace MAS been forced on the envious
neighbours"
Harvard for Freedom of Speech.
Harvard university officials, gradu-
ates and students have almost in
stood up for Prof. Muenster-
berg's freedom of speech, whatever
were their personal feelings or those
of the public against him, or how SER
ious the charge. There was one not
able instance in the fall of 1914,
when opinion was divided, but the
university stood firm on the ground
of liberty of speech and printing his
views.
When in October, 1914, Maj. C1ar-
ence Wiener of Surrey, Eng, cabled
and wrote the Harvard authorities
that he would cut the college off from
a contemplated bequest of $10,OO0,OO0
in his will unless it discharged Prof.
Muensterberg, the latter offered his
resignation, which was not accepted.
One of Prof. Muensterberg's bitter
est controversies over the war was
with Prof. William Ernest Hooking,
also Of the Harvard department of
philosophy. 1t came about in Octo-
Der, 1916, when a translation OF a
letter written by Prof. Muensterberg
to the German Chancellor, on the
changes that had taken place in Ger
man-American sentiment toward the
war was made public, after falling in
to British hands.
Prof. Hooking, in an open letter,
asked Prof. Muensterberg in whose
interests he had written such a re-
port whether Germany's or Americas
and if he was not doing what he
could to weaken Americanism in or
der that Germanism might prevail
among u.s.
"By what name would such activ-
tiles be called in your own Father
land ?" asked Prof. Hooking.
POLITICALLY Strictly American"
Prof. Muensterberg made a spirit
ed reply, in which he termed 'fan-
tastic'' the idea that he ever put the
interest of Germany above the inter-
est of America He asserted that he
had always held that German-Amer-
leans Unjust be politically strictly
Americans and nothing else"
DR.. Muensterberg continued to
speak and write on the war to the day
of his death. One of his last notable
utterances on the subject was before
a Harvard society, the International
Polity Club, on Oct. II last. He then
declared he believed that Germany,
Austria, Russia and Japan would
form an alliance before Easter unless
the United States took steps to bring
Germany and England together He
said he believed official steps had
been taken toward such an alliance.
These and other utterances on the
war made for continued attacks on
Prof Muensterberg. On the day fol-
lowing his address above mentioned
he was termed ga high-class German
sby'' by Theodore Stanton, son of
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and a grad
uate of Cornell, at the Twentieth Cen
fury club in Boston.
The day before, a Boston society, a
branch of the American Rights
League, had passed resolutions sug-