in 1916, she traveled without government or mission, without prosser -- cropper passport and visa and so forth, traveled from britain through france and switzerland to germany. she went to see the german foreign minister whom she had known before the war, talked about possible peace terms, asked him what might we terms in which germany would agree to peace. talk to other people in the german government. went back to england. saw people in the british government. tried to suggest these terms to them. diplomacy that failed. but, over the course of four and a half years, the worst conflict the world had yet seen that had left 20 million dead, she was the only person in europe who literally traveled from one side to the other in search of peace. she had great influence on a the young cousin of hers, stephen hobhouse. in this picture he is much older but during the war he was a military age. he refused the draft, was sent to prison and in prison was thrown into solitary confinement because he was leading a protest against this rule of silence. he said i'm going to speak to my fellow human