Let the high praises of God be in their mouth,
And a two-edged sword in their hand;
To execute vengeance upon the nations,
And punishments upon the peoples;
To bind their kings with chains,
And their nobles with fetters of iron.
Sword and chains—well, yes, those were the Iron Chancellor’s ideals. Now he belongs to the past. The future requires other symbols,—instead of blood-dripping iron, the light-streaming diamond.
The Spanish-American War is at an end. The hostilities ceased on the fourteenth of August.
And ten days later the world was surprised by an event, the account of which I must give in a new part of these memoirs.
PART EIGHT