_When properly conducted, a diplomatic mission can turn the most smashing of battle-successes into a fabulous Pyrrhic victory._ It was a great pity, Space Marshal Wilbur Hennings reflected, as he gazed through the one-way glass of the balcony door, that the local citizens had insisted upon decorating the square before their capitol with the hulk of the first spaceship ever to have landed on Pollux V.…
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