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Show SWISS NATION IS ON SOUND BASIS President Declares Recent Border Agitation Will Have No Effect on Unity of Switzerland. Paris, Feb. 19, 4:55 a, m Camllle de Coppot, president of the Swiss Federation, Fed-eration, says that there Is no crisis In Switzerland Involving tho political unity of the country, according to the Berne correspondent of the Journal, with whom M. de Coppot discussed the agitation aroused In Switzerland bv the disclosures made during Instigation In-stigation of the case against two Swiss colonels arrested on charges of communication of military secrets. "Switzerland tomorrow will bo the same as Switzerland of yesterday," said the president. "The sympathies entertained by the Swiss for foreign causes simply show that they are using fully their constitutional liberty to think as they like. Should a movement move-ment of assimilation take place on cur borders it will be a movement of endosmosis, as we say In physics, rather than of exosmosis. In other words, our neighbors are far more likely to become Swiss than are tho Swiss to enter into tho life of the belligerent bel-ligerent nations. All this popular effervescence will quiet down when the federal council meets. Everything will be cleared up and Swiss patriotism patriot-ism will come out of the affair strengthened if anything." A dispatch from Geneva on January Janu-ary 11 last said that Colonels de Wat-tenwyi Wat-tenwyi and Egli had been accused of communicating to German information informa-tion regarding French positions along the Swiss frontier and, according to' other accounts, of having delivered to the Austro-German military attaches the reports received at Swiss headquarters head-quarters regarding the movements and the disposition of Swiss troops along the frontier. Later dispatches have referred to the popular excitement excite-ment which had been aroused with regard re-gard to the accusations made against the two colonels and which culminated culminat-ed In the tearing down of a German flag by an angry crowd in the city of Lausanne. |