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"~The Freiburg Congress was an international event of the first order. At @ moment of extreme political tension between the French and German Governments, Marc Sangnier and 120 of his French friends dared to meet severe] hundred pacifists, mostly German Catholics, on German soil. It was the first Franco-German contact on a la ree ecale since the war. ... {. . The freshness and geal of the rman Youth groups 80 strongly Ds ay represented, Catholic and Protestant, bourgeois ard proletarian, +. made an enormous impression on the French,Ware Sangnier ended , bis speach with the words ‘Love is stronger than Hate, for Love 8 . “phe value of Freiburg lsy far more in this solemn'zect of those who believe in the power of Love,' this re-affirmation of the true Catholicity of Christianity, than in the actual resolutions passed. It shoved that the vicions circle of victory and revenge in Francefeman hi story can be broken by a new generation who Inve gore through a sommon experience of Christian fellowship." fhe Germans at this meeting collected their jewels and sent them back to France by Mare Sangnier, who showed them in the Chamber of Deputies as testimony to the willingness of Germans _- to do their prt in. repairing the raveges of war. Ia Jeune République has groups all over France, with study circles and a Holiday Center near Paris which, it is hoped, will become a home of Franco~German friendship. It publishes a monthly magazine, "L'Ame Commune , "which carries on its first page the slogan, "L'Amour est plus fort que Ja haine." (Love ts stronger than Hate). Paris Universit fhe students of Protestant Theology at Paris University took the initiative in the matter of Franco-German reconciliation by going into Germany last sunmer (1925) ané establishing personal contacts. Many stuients are also nenbers of the Fellowship of _ ‘Reconciliation. Groupment Universitaire ria Société des Nations miversity Assoc on ror ague of Nations ~~ 62 bie, rue Charles Lafitte, Neuilly-sur-Seine The program of this organization calis for an international committee and development of study groups in the universities.