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 beauty of his fine light-blue uniform, with its row of decorations and stripes, evidently made a great impression on these two Russian soldiers, for the following dialogue took place:

"Who is that big officer in blue? Is that not the Minister's staff officer?"

"Not at all. Don't you know? That is the King of the Belgians."

"Well then, the King of the Belgians is simply a fool. He does nothing but repeat what his Minister says."

After that will they tell us that in order to govern the Russian people it is necessary to have the prestige of a constitutional monarchy?

To adapt our language to the intelligence of our public, we had ended by selecting different metaphors that seemed to produce the best impression. Here are a few examples:

"Tyranny in Europe is like a monster that we read of in old legends that had three heads. Every time that a brave knight destroyed one, another head grew up. To kill the monster it was necessary to destroy the three heads at once.