The discussion of a colonial system ceases to be an abstract debate, and becomes a question of practical emergency, when a colonial convention presses the diplomacy of the mother-country and prompts its foreign policy.
Morley argues that discussions about colonial systems become urgent when they impact foreign policy directly.
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For this line of contention he was called an “unpatriotic trumpet of disaster,” and other names commonly bestowed on all men in all countries who venture to say that what chances for the hour to be a popular war is a blunder.
Gladstone protested against the bill as “inequitable, unusual, and unwise,” and it was largely modified in committee.
True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.
People still believe that Russian diplomats are particularly crafty and clever, full of artifices and stratagems, but that is not the case.
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