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What They Saw in Russia After 



VodKa Left 1 



By Margaret Wintringer 



WHILE in London a letter of introduction secured for 

 me an interview with Baron De Hey kind, the Russian 

 Consul General. I found the baron a somewhat stern 

 but courtly man of distinguished military appearance. 



I told him how the Czar's ukase had been welcomed 

 in the United States, and a look of pride, and even 

 exaltation, softened the naturally stern countenance. 

 'It is the greatest and grandest national edict since 

 Moses gave a moral code to the Jewish people,' 

 he declared proudly. : 'Not since the world began 

 has any people taken such an advanced step. Our 

 Emperor has taken the place in the twentieth century 

 that your Lincoln held in the nineteenth century. 

 Only it is greater to free men from themselves than 

 from bondage to others. No one, except the Saviour 

 of men, ever essayed that before.' He spoke with 

 simple reverence. 



'It is a miracle,' he continued, "the strength of 

 the army and the growth of the nation since indul- 



1 By permission of The Continent. 

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