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Show A P03T OP VAST POWBR. Grave llMpoailbllllr Th.l llr.1 Willi Ih. IlrltUh for.lgn Hole The man wbo keeps tho IlrltUh em plro In line with the rest of tbo civilized civi-lized nations stands paramount among tbe world's statesmen. On him, more than any other man, perhaps, depends the pcaco ot millions. In his keeping are the Interests of one-quarter of the human race. No empire has so many vulnerable points as his; no man's acts so nearly affect the empire's sato-ty. sato-ty. The words ho speaks, tbe things he docs, may rebound for good or evil long after he has gone and his naiuo Is foigottcn. It is, Indeed, hardly an exaggeration to say that the Hrltlsh foreign office Is tbe guirdlan or the peace of the world An Indiscreet word, a careless act, and thero Is not a corner of tho earth, howevor remote, re-mote, whero some powder magazine might not explode. It is not a thing to bo lightly talked of, this guiding of tho great IlrltUh machlno, which may set every fourth man In Iho world at war against his Ihreo neighbors. |