The Revolution in the Armies
manian General Staff, General Tcherbatcheff, General Berthelot, and General Cumont, Chief of the Belgian military mission in Roumania—went away, to give us full liberty to discuss with the officers and the soldier delegates who, mixing together fraternally, surrounded us. We replied to their questions, and finally they gave a touching demonstration of their respect and enthusiasm for Belgium. Then we saw the officers and soldiers, who had just half an hour before given us so admirable an example of discipline, embrace each other cordially. A Russian soldier, whose speech in French—he had formerly been a student at Nancy—had greatly moved Generals Tcherbatcheff, Berthelot, and Cumont, who had now returned and mingled with the crowd, was embraced by the three Generals, while the Colonel of the 57th Regiment, a fine old man, who had been wounded four times, was borne aloft in triumph by the soldiers. Finally the Generals present—those same Generals who had no longer the right to put a man in cells without the intervention of the police and the Soviets—were borne in triumph
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