Perhaps I should find it easiest in the work of confession to own my neighbour’s faults, i.e. to dwell upon those strange sins of foreign policy which have happily for the most part been nipped in the bud almost à l’unanimité (yet with what exceptions!); but avoiding that task, I will make my own confession.
Morley contemplates the challenges of acknowledging faults in foreign policy while choosing to confess his own shortcomings.
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