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They have told you that they do not seek alliance with Russia, or with any foreign power, but that they seek to be delivered from an intolerable burden of woe and shame.
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Morley highlights the desire of oppressed populations to free themselves from suffering without seeking foreign alliances.
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I think any man who lays down a firm proposition that all is well, or any man who says that all is ill--either of those two men is probably wrong.
But as I read it, as I listen to serious Indian experts with large experience, it all sounds estrangement and alienation even though it be no worse than superficial.
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