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In the press, however, I had strenuously opposed the Forster Coercion bill of the following winter, as involving a radical misapprehension of the nature and magnitude of the case.
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Morley expresses his strong opposition to the Forster Coercion bill, highlighting its fundamental misunderstandings.
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