"I begin ab ovo.

'The enemy of the human race,' as you know, attacks the Prussians.

The Prussians are our faithful allies who have only betrayed us three times in three years.

We take up their cause, but it turns out that 'the enemy of the human race' pays no heed to our fine speeches and in his rude and savage way throws himself on the Prussians without giving them time to finish the parade they had begun, and in two twists of the hand he breaks them to smithereens and installs himself in the palace at Potsdam.