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Rh Priam, to fight for her), upon what she has been, and is, and stands for, and has to stand against. ‘Remember in all that you do that you are in an enemy country’, a recent German Ambassador is said to have remarked in words of advice to a junior who was proceeding to London: it would not be necessary to add, ‘But so conduct yourself as though you are a friend’. Assuredly we may all agree that no representative of his country abroad should drink of the potion described in poetic fiction that made men forget their country; and, so, it is a wise recommendation that members of the diplomatic service should fortify themselves against such insinuating influence by periodic visits to the land they represent.