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A Footnote to History

CHAPTER VI--LAST EXPLOITS OF BECKER
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A rebel laid on German ground--here was an atrocity! The day before his own relief, November 11th, Becker ordered the man's instant removal.

By his aggressive carriage and singular mixture of violence and cunning, he had already largely brought about the fall of Brandeis, and forced into an attitude of hostility the whole non-German population of the islands.
Now, in his last hour of office, by this wanton buffet to his English colleague, he prepared a continuance of evil days for his successor.

If the object of diplomacy be the organisation of failure in the midst of hate, he was a great diplomatist.

And amongst a certain party on the beach he is still named as the ideal consul..


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