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Through nearly all the important legislation and diplomacy of those stirring and interpretative years ran, with ever increasing clearness, the dividing line of Nationalism as against localism.
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Beveridge highlights the clear divide between nationalism and localism that characterized important legislation and diplomacy during a tumultuous time.
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