If that had not been the case, I should not have promised to give them aid." He affirmed this several times in good faith, with absolute confidence in the people who had given him their promise.
"They will sink, if they can, the ships of the Allies that are in the Dardanelles.

But what does that matter to us ?...

That is war! When we were carrying cannons and guns to the revolutionists in South America we did not trouble ourselves about the use which they might make of them, did we ?" Toni persisted in his negative.
"It is not the same thing....

I don't know how to express myself, but it is not the same.

There, cannon can be answered by cannon.