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In fact, no power exists in the State Department to authorize such a tender.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “In fact, no power exists in the State Department to authorize such a tender.”
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Sumner asserts that the State Department lacks the power to authorize a tender of the surplus.
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