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John Morley: “Yet he had prepared this document for the very purpose of tempting France into a declaration of war.”

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Yet he had prepared this document for the very purpose of tempting France into a declaration of war.
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John Morley

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John Morley critiques the strategic intentions behind a document that aimed to provoke France into war.

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