But to face all the cost and all the risks of a prolonged and a widely extended conflict, with the deliberate intention of allowing the enemy to have his own way after the conflict had been brought to an end, was not intelligible and was not defensible.
Morley critiques the rationale behind prolonged conflict without clear objectives in post-war scenarios.
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True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.
Individuals may recover from even serious sickness; it does not appear to be the way with governments.”—Mr.
People still believe that Russian diplomats are particularly crafty and clever, full of artifices and stratagems, but that is not the case.
Yet he had prepared this document for the very purpose of tempting France into a declaration of war.
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