If France, now unable to secure our co-operation, still thought the Italian danger grave enough to warrant single-handed intervention, how does that support the inference that she must certainly be ready to invade England next?
Morley questions the logic behind France's military decisions and their implications for England.
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Happy the man who from out the floods has fled the storm and found the haven; happy too is he who has surmounted toil and trouble.—Bacchae, 902-5.
Individuals may recover from even serious sickness; it does not appear to be the way with governments.”—Mr.
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