As you walk, you realize something that has not seen before, when he accompanied the colonel. The United States flag floating above all the buildings. There are many on the street signs in English and French. American soldiers everywhere. The uniform Lubimoff and other French fighters lost in the great flood of men dressed in mustard color. Lighter cars constantly passing U.S. Army. They are innumerable, they are found in the streets, in the ways of the sea, like ants climbing snorers skirts of the Alps. A robust life, cheerful, confident, a life of twenty years seems to revive it. The concert on the terrace gives a band of American music. Those who pass through the streets dancing mechanically whistle across the ocean, marching songs of the soldiers of the Union. People in the street stops to admire the agility of the Americans in shirtsleeves sent the ball and then returned to capture it in his glove fencing.

Monaco seems conquered by troops of the great Republic, a good-natured and friendly conquest that makes you smile to the subject. The same nice and the whole Riviera. The prince recalls his brief stay in Paris a few days earlier. Americans have also seen everywhere. How many? … What has superhuman strength have created in a few months the army, still newborn, seems to fill all? …

A village just up on the peoples of the earth. Never in history met a similar ascent. Predominates by sympathy, for his generous acts by force charity of their activity, not by terror, the basis of all the greatness of the past.

Lubimoff doubt remember the year before. Nobody could believe that a ragtag army people without a military force equal to those of old Europe. And with only a few months the United States created and sent two million men to decide the success of the struggle and the fate of the world.