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This was to awaken the spectre of old suspicions, and to bring to life again those forces of violence and desperation which it had been the very crown of his policy to exorcise.
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John Morley
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Morley discusses the consequences of political actions that revive old tensions and violence in Ireland.
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He was a soldier of infinite personal courage and daring; of striking military energy, initiative, and resource; a high, pure, and single character, dwelling much in the region of the unseen.
This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.
If I were going to remain Indian Secretary for some time to come, my every effort would be devoted to an abatement of that enormous amount of writing.
There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.
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