The need for pressure of any kind is, of course, regrettable, the only question being whether such limited pressure be not more humane to the nation which experiences it, and less distasteful to the nation which exercises it, than is the letting loose of the limitless calamities of war.
Holland reflects on the regrettable necessity of pressure in international relations compared to the calamities of war.
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