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Money proposals were useless; Talleyrand was playing with the Americans, he declared.
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gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “Money proposals were useless; Talleyrand was playing with the Americans, he declared.”
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Beveridge captures Marshall's frustration with Talleyrand's manipulative tactics regarding financial proposals.
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