Perhaps I should find it easiest in the work of confession to own my neighbour’s faults, i.e. to dwell upon those strange sins of foreign policy which have happily for the most part been nipped in the bud almost à l’unanimité (yet with what exceptions!); but avoiding that task, I will make my own confession.
Morley contemplates the challenges of acknowledging faults in foreign policy while choosing to confess his own shortcomings.
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What I wish to insist upon is, not that that system was good, but that the statesman who undertook to overthrow it, should have had something to put in its place.
This was a complete falsification of a whole set of our national promises.
With a few exceptions, a political speech like the manna in the wilderness loses its savour on the second day.
My desire is thoroughly to shake up all the materials of the question.
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