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Charles Sumner: “What right have we to determine how to expend in China or for China that which is hers?”

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What right have we to determine how to expend in China or for China that which is hers?
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner questions the right of the United States to decide how to spend funds that rightfully belong to China.

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