[13] Recently published in the Corriere della Sera and translated by the Journal de Genève, September 1914.
[14] Le Temps, September 4, 1914.
[15] Issues of September 16 and 17, 1914: La Guerre et le Droit.
[16] Letter dated September 15, 1871, published in Réforme intellectuelle et morale.
[17] Open letter of Dr. Ernst Dryander, the First Court Preacher and Vice-President of the Higher Ecclesiastical Council, to C. E. Babut, Pastor of Nimes, September 15, 1914 (published in l'Essor for the 10th October and the Journal de Genève, 18th October).
[18] The newspapers of both countries give publicity only to prejudiced stories unfavorable to the enemy. One would imagine that they devote themselves to collecting only the worst cases, in order to preserve the atmosphere of hatred; and those to which they give predominance are often doubtful and always exceptional. No mention is made of anything that would tell in a contrary direction of prisoners who are grateful for their treatment, as in the letters which we have to transmit to their families—in which, for example, a German civil prisoner speaks of a pleasant walk, or of sea bathing, he has been allowed to enjoy. I have even come across the case of an entomologist who is peacefully absorbed in his researches, and profiting by his enforced sojourn in the South of France to complete his collection of insects.
[19] On this point, I would echo the appeal in the article cited above, from the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
[20] Published by the Daily Telegraph, London, 1914.
[21] The Editor of a great Paris paper having offered to publish my reply to those who attacked me, I sent him this article, which never appeared.
[22] Paul Bourget.