Ogden Daily Standard | 1910-02-12 | Page 1 | Man who Knew Him Says Leopold was Great

MAN WHO KNEW HIM SAYS LEOPOLD WAS GREAT i New York, Feb. 12. High praise for Leopold, late king of the Belgians, comes from Henry Iane Wilson, -x-minister to Belgium, who leaves for his new post as ambassador to Mexico Mex-ico next week. "Ix-opold was Intellectually the superior su-perior of any reigning monarch of Europe," Eu-rope," said Mr. Wilson; who has Just arrived in New York after a brief visit vis-it in the west. "He played his part In a limited field of action, but if he had been emperor of Germany or king of England, he would have been esteemed es-teemed the first figure of his time. In financial or commercial life he would have been a Morgan or a Rockefeller. Rocke-feller. "AH his ideas were on a grand scale nnd whateverrnitakes ho - niad v cre due mnlnly to the difference between be-tween the pare he wished to (day and the little theater in which he had to play it,"