Through a blunder my letter to Roggenbach only went off to-day, so
that it will not be in his hands before Wednesday. Passy wrote me
to-day a delighted card about the _bonne nouvelle_ from Berlin,—as if
I were not aware of it! Your letter came too late, because it was
addressed to the Chamber of Deputies. His address is Frédéric Passy,
de l’Institut, Neuilly, near Paris.
It is too bad that Schlief stays out; but the Union could not be
political. If on the outside there is formed a political party devoted
wholly to the interests of peace, that would be fine, of course. It is
good that the A.-L.[45] question is passed over in silence; but it
must be real silence, not saying in the appeal that we say nothing of
it because we do not recognize it; that would render the international
relations of the new society more difficult. The solution must be, “We
do not say where the right lies in the pending conflicts; we only
desire that a system of law and a tribunal should be created in which
those who are competent and _in authority_ (as we are not) should
settle the conflicts without violence.”