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They could only explain all these doings, not by “wrong-headedness or imbecility,” but by a strange theory that there must be deliberate treachery among the government agents.
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John Morley
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gutenberg.orgJohn Morley: “They could only explain all these doings, not by “wrong-headedness or imbecility,” but by a strange theory that there…”
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Morley discusses the public's perception of government actions, suggesting a belief in deliberate treachery rather than incompetence.
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For this line of contention he was called an “unpatriotic trumpet of disaster,” and other names commonly bestowed on all men in all countries who venture to say that what chances for the hour to be a popular war is a blunder.
True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.
It is a case so to speak of “limited liability.” We are bound in honour—you cannot put a legal construction upon it—to see in concert with others that these arrangements are maintained.
Yet he had prepared this document for the very purpose of tempting France into a declaration of war.
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