Or are we to look, not at the sentiment, but at the hard facts of the case, which Lord Derby told us fifteen years ago—viz., that it is the populations of those countries that will ultimately possess them—that will ultimately determine their abiding condition?
Morley argues for a focus on the realities of the populations affected by political decisions rather than abstract sentiments.
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