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Yet I am not prepared, for myself, to concede that we made a mistake in not advising a revocation of the annexation when we came in.
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John Morley
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gutenberg.orgJohn Morley: “Yet I am not prepared, for myself, to concede that we made a mistake in not advising a revocation of the annexation when…”
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Morley reflects on the decision not to revoke the annexation of the Transvaal, asserting his belief in the correctness of that choice.
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