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May not Generals and higher authorities, who believe in hard swearing as a means of grace, take a lesson in statesmanship from an ice-cream saloon?
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Whitelaw Reid
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Reid humorously suggests that military leaders could learn about diplomacy from the social interactions in an ice-cream saloon.
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