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Let any Englishman ask himself how he should like his destinies to depend on an assembly of which one-third was British-American and another third South African and Australian.
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John Morley
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gutenberg.orgLet any Englishman ask himself how he should like his destinies to depend on an assembly of which one-third was British-American and another third South African and Australian.
Morley invites readers to consider the implications of distant governance.
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