To give a single signatory Power the right of forbidding a change desired by all the others, imposes a kind of perpetuity on treaty stipulations, that in practice neither could nor ought to be insisted upon.
Morley critiques the idea of giving one nation the power to block changes desired by others in international treaties.
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All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
But we have no right to cast on him any responsibility beyond what is strictly military.
But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.
This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.
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