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The Ambassador spoke in tone of emotion. He paced rapidly up and down the room, as if oblivious of the presence of his companion.
"It is a popular superstition," he went on, "that nations are ruled by kings and Cabinets. Nothing of the kind. Every nation is ruled by its capitalists. When it suits their purpose these people can alter the map of a continent without war and without the loss of life.