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Unfortunately this experience, whatever be the precise name for it, now came with disastrous promptitude, and the nation having narrowly escaped one war, found itself involved in two.
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Morley discusses the disastrous consequences of the government's actions leading to war.
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This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.
With a few exceptions, a political speech like the manna in the wilderness loses its savour on the second day.
We do not know how to leave India, and therefore let us see if we know how to govern it.
They hope to attract that good will which must, after all, be the real foundation of our prosperity and strength in India.
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