Sees In America Greatest Peace Aid.

New York Times 100 years ago today, June 9, 1913:
Baroness von Suttner Makes Light of Japanese War Rumors.
TO EXPLAIN US TO EUROPE
She Hopes to Dispel the Profound Ignorance of the American Character.
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Monday, June 9.— The Vienna correspondent of The Daily News telegraphs an interview with Baroness Bertha von Suttner on the occasion of her seventieth birthday, which she celebrates to-day.
    Asked what she expected to do next in the cause of peace, she replied that she would communicate to the world the impressions gained during her seven months' stay in the United States, which came to an end last Christmas.
    "I am quite sure," said the Baroness, "that from America will come the greatest help for the cause of peace, and I consider it my duty to inform the people of Europe as to the feelings and intentions of the friends of peace in Europe. I purpose, now to most influential circles, from the President downward. My Intention in going to the New World was to explain to the people there how dangerous the present political situation in Europe was, and to suggest to them that they should help the friends of peace in Europe. I propose now to tell the people here what I learned and saw in America, and thus dispel the ignorance regarding that country and the character of its inhabitants — ignorance profound as the ocean which separates them and us.
    "Here people are always talking about the strained relations between the United States and Japan and the imminence of war between those countries; but yet it is a fact that Japan was the first power to accept President Wilson's recent proposal. There is no doubt that in America also warlike agitation is being carried on by interested persons connected with the international arms and ammunition trust.
    "During my sojourn in America I was informed everywhere that there was not the slightest danger of an armed conflict between that country and Japan, and that also in the latter country there was no really powerful war party, but only a few agitators who had their own axes to grind.
    "My next literary work will form a continuation of my memoirs, from the year 1902 to the present day; and what I heard and saw in America will be one of the most important chapters."
    The Baroness added that she intended to attend the opening of the Carnegie Peace Palace at The Hague and the Peace Congress there in August.