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The wording of the recommendation in my despatch was, as I soon discovered, ambiguous--a grievous defect, of which I make bold to hope I am not very often in public business guilty.
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John Morley
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Morley acknowledges a mistake in the ambiguity of his previous recommendation regarding electoral processes.
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