Bob Tisch, chairman of Loews Hotels, which owns the Regency, and a habitual breakfaster, says, "The transactions are very gentlemanlike, but there is big money negotiated here.
These soldiers, who arrive in Switzerland at the rate of about a thousand a day, are the very prototype of gentlemanlike, tactful tourists.
The staid Swiss were outraged at the British reportorial tactics (sniffed the respected Neue Zrcher Zeitung: "Hardly gentlemanlike") but could not resist a little curiosity .