... new man. For a long time I have wept for your sufferings, and admired your firmness in bearing them, your Constancy in keeping alive in your hearts faith in the future of the Latin race. I know very well that flatteries are not the thing to suit you, but ...

... sent back to the side to which they may belong, the different governments undertaking not to employ them again in the present war. Arms and ammunition are to be given up at the end of the war, and the coat of keeping them to be repaid to the Swiss government ...