Indignation if not consuming wrath was in the voice of the Belgian press as M. Theunis, Ambassador Baron Cartier de Marchienne, Felician Cattier and Emile Francqui departed for the U.S. three weeks ago. "Shylock," "the soul of Shylock" people muttered in the streets of Brussels, and; press set down the opprobrious words in black and white. The contemptuous words were not spoken of any of the departing gentlemen, all honored as able statesmen or financiers in their country sneering epithet was applied to an intangible person, that daddy-long-legs of symbolical figures, Uncle...
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