Looking back from this distance, the first months of the Great War appear to have passed in a strange semi-hypnotic state of mind, made up of surprise, anxiety, and horror. Mentally unprepared for the inhuman catastrophe—a "lèse-humanité" in its truest sense—one felt as must a tree at blows levelling its growth and blossom to the ground. At the same time, a deep sense of indignation little by little restored the mental balance, which was soon to enable one to return to a sense of the immediate and growing necessities of the situation, and endeavour to meet these as they arose; and one cannot but feel a great thankfulness at having been privileged to find work in the many war activities in Switzerland, herein detailed, towards the relief of our suffering brotherhood. As I mentioned at the opening of these chapters, I little thought when taking up our residence in Berne that it would be for four consecutive years. Yet, looking back, these long years appear to have passed as a flash, so great was the anxiety, so full the daily task, so steady the conviction of an ultimate successful issue to the horrible drama of the World War. INDEX Ador, Monsieur Gustave, President of the Swiss Confederation, 1918; President of the International Red Cross Society of Geneva, 27, 133 Allied Military Attachés in Switzerland, 1914, 14 Annan, Miss, 176, 177 Arago, Monsieur, French Deputy, 52 Armée-Sanitäts-Anstalt (A.S.A.) (Lucerne), 108 Arndt, Dr. (Berne), 103, 107 Artificial limbs, 116 Austin-Lee, Sir Henry, Hon. Attaché British Embassy, Paris, 42 Bohny, Colonel Dr., Chief of Swiss Military Red Cross Department, 72, 73, 77 British Hospitals, Boulogne, Calais, etc., 42 British Interned, Mürren (Magazine) "B.I.M.," 189, 190 British Legation Red Cross Organization in Switzerland (B.L.R.C.O.), 34, 40-46, 49, 77, 101, 103, 146-148, 155, 174, 181, 182, 189, 203 British Red Cross Society, London (B.R.C.S.), 45, 46, 70, 108, 110, 115, 146, 151, 153, 156, 158, 175, 176, 185 "British Section" of the Bureau de Secours aux Prisonniers de Guerre, 57-61, 63, 64, 67, 68, 70, 182 Brüstlein, Captain Dr., 102, 126 Bureau de Secours aux Prisonniers de Guerre, 54, 56, 68 Central Prisoners of War Committee, 45, 63, 64, 71, 153, 183, 184 Charley, Major H. R., Assistant B.R.C.S. Commissioner, 70, 150, 153, 155, 189, 190 Chaux, Captain Dr. de la (Swiss Army), 35, 120 Civilian Refugees, French and Belgian, 51 Clement, Captain Dr. (Fribourg), 107, 111, 169, 172 Comité Bernois, 54, 56 Conference between British Navigation Interests, Bagdad Railway Company, and Deutsche Bank, 3 Cook-Daniels, Mrs. C., Founder of Carpet Workshop Gunten, 43, 146, 147, 182 Egli, Colonel C. H., État-Major Général (Swiss), 16-18 Favre, Major Edouard, Swiss Medical Staff, 169, 186 Foreign Office, London, 3, 5, 57 Garnett, Dr., Advisor for Technical Instruction of Interned, 40, 137-139, 149-153 Gillespie, Lieut.-Colonel A. K., 43, 181, 182