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The policy itself, as well understood by Gordon as by everybody else, was untouched, and it was: to leave the Soudanese in the state in which God had placed them.
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John Morley
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gutenberg.orgJohn Morley: “The policy itself, as well understood by Gordon as by everybody else, was untouched, and it was: to leave the Soudanese…”
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Morley clarifies the understood policy regarding the Soudanese situation as one of neglect.
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