Bern

Apart from all this state action, several valiant efforts were made by private individuals inspired with the noblest ideals.

Politicians who had grown gray in the public service, such as Monsieur Bernard, a Belgian minister of state, devoted all the remaining vigor of body and mind to the task of spreading the influence of peace conferences and leagues by making them more numerous.

In meetings at which many eloquent speeches were delivered, they tried to discover means of superseding the ultima ratio of a resort to arms by the permanent use of arbitral tribunals.

Baron des Tournelles de Constant and Lord Weardale, to mention only the most energetic apostles of their creed, preached with unflagging zeal the gospel of pacifism, which, by smoothing over international differences, was to lead mankind towards the golden age of universal peace.

The demands of the war party found expression in a literature that was half political, half military.

The writers openly advocated a European conflict as the only means of completing the work of Bismarck, that is to say, of giving Germany her rightful place at the head of the nations.

A typical product of this school is the now celebrated book by the retired cavalry general Friedrich von Bernardi, entitled Germany and the Next War.

In spite of the lofty moral and philosophical tone that he often adopts, the author is more daring and outspoken than any of his fellow scribes.

But there were multiple other meetings that I know Rockefeller representatives were at, I'm sure representatives of all different...

And bankers from all over the world, the people that went in and out of Bern, Switzerland, and in and out of Basel during the war, McKittrick.

So to me, I think much of this in that period of time was about the... meshing of the worlds without anyone noticing so like you're saying is it a coincidence or the committee of 300 when was that created or whatever much of the systems like you're saying were created and nobody knows that because they they were working together but not in the same place but the same end goal and i think that's still what happens when you say well they meet at davos Yeah, but they have 14 other meetings and then 75 other locations and they all meet and transmit it back and they all get on the same page.

They don't have to be in the same room.

The Alsatian towns found the money to repay Charles, and Hagenbach was put to death.

French gold fostered the war party among the cantons led by Bern.

Even Frederick III was brought into Louis' net, though he replied with his usual caution to a proposal of the king to share Charles' inheritance, saying that it was better to wait to divide the bear's skin till the beast was dead.

Lastly, Rene of Lorraine invaded Luxembourg.

From that time there were signs that his power was on the wane.

Hitherto the Pianjoni had been politically in the ascendant.

The election of the Medicean Bernardo del Nero as Gonfaloniere showed the beginning of a change, which was confirmed by an attempt of Piero upon Florence, and by the tumult raised by the Campagnacci in the cathedral, where Savonarola was preaching on Ascension Day.

End of Section 10 Section 11 of Europe in Renaissance and Reformation by Mary A. Hollings This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.

We went to Strasbourg, thence into the Schwarzwald, where we took a charming walking tour for a few days.

We took train at Freiburg for Baal, whence we walked through the region of the Juras to Bern.

At Bern we met a charming family of father, mother, and daughter, the Christophersens, to whom I had introductions from some college friends.

i found mr christopherson a most agreeable acquaintance and one who especially suited my tone of mind we often took excursions in the mountains together with young richardson sometimes in the company of the two ladies who drew out very pleasantly the intelligence of my young charge i must say i was at first somewhat jealous of the notice miss christopherson took in richardson But I soon saw that she merely patronised the raw lad, whom I think she rather despised than admired, though in kind good temper she sometimes brought him out.

Those walks and rides round Bern, in the sight of the glorious snowy Alps, or by the brawling Ahr, I never shall forget.

They are among the brightest parts of my life.

Several times I referred to my mysterious friend and deliverer, Pusila, from whom I had not received any letter or communication since he had left for America.

"'I so wish you could meet him,' I said one day, as we were walking on the hills near Bern, to maud Christofferson.

Peter's written how we got here, in the old line of the, the old joke about the man asked for directions, "I wouldn't start from here if I were you." You have written how we get out of the mess that we're in.

My problem here, though, is as a country, I don't know if you notice this now, but when you go anywhere else, Oslo, Stockholm, Bern, you just feel that everything is done slightly better there than it is in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland now.

And the two examples, we've talked about HS2, but the other one that must be close to your heart, Peter, is the abject failure to actually open the Oxford to Cambridge line where a vast fortune has been spent.

The story of that line is an example of my point, which is the British government hates railways and doesn't really have any sympathy with them.

Let's look at Einstein in 1905, the miracle year.

He is sitting in Bern, Switzerland, working as a third-class patent clerk.

It is vital to analyze how he actually worked during that period.

He did not solve the mysteries of the universe by constantly switching between tasks.

and sometimes they're not worried about it.

Like we went to Roman Yossi's hometown, Bern, Switzerland.

We all said Bern.

If you're being more authentic, it's more like burn, burn, burn.

But that's not how we talk, right? We say burn.

You know, this is a Champions League debutant, but very cool.

They beat Bern by four goals to nil, overturned a first leg deficit, fully deserved the win, fully deserved to go through.

And now for their troubles, they've got Chelsea, Inter, Juve, Benfica, Bayern and Man City.

Good luck.