If the Belgian people desire, on their own account, to join France or any other country, I for one will be no party to taking up arms to prevent it.
John Morley: “If the Belgian people desire, on their own account, to join France or any other country, I for one will be no party to…”
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Morley expresses his unwillingness to use force against the Belgian people's desire to join another country.
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