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Here is one of the very few instances in which the public opinion of the country at the eleventh hour reined back a warlike minister.
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John Morley
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gutenberg.orgHere is one of the very few instances in which the public opinion of the country at the eleventh hour reined back a warlike minister.
Morley reflects on a rare instance where public opinion influenced government decisions against war.
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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.
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