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People still believe that Russian diplomats are particularly crafty and clever, full of artifices and stratagems, but that is not the case.
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John Morley
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gutenberg.orgPeople still believe that Russian diplomats are particularly crafty and clever, full of artifices and stratagems, but that is not the case.
Morley critiques the common perception of Russian diplomats as particularly cunning.
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