Who among us does not look upon our past with chagrin? And who among us is not aware of the fact that all of our sufferings are the consequence of our ignorance and our fragmentation, which keep brother from brother? But after long centuries, during which we forgot one another, during which so many misfortunes rained down upon us, we have arrived at the consciousness of our unity — that we are brothers. Exceptional days are upon us. Nations have been liberated, relieved from the burdens beneath the weight of which they had been groaning. These days have relieved us too of a greater fardel, for now we feel able to express what we have sensed for so long, what is to our advantage, what it is high time for us to determine! The nations of Europe are coming to a common understanding, and unitin
