It is also, if not one of the necessities, at least one of the natural probabilities of our imperfect condition, that when a nation has its forces engaged in war, that is the moment when other nations may press inconvenient questions of their own.
Morley notes that nations engaged in war are often vulnerable to external pressures, a reflection on the nature of international relations.
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