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Charles Sumner: “I see no practical method, which shall reconcile the sensibilities of France with the guaranties due to Germany, short…”

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I see no practical method, which shall reconcile the sensibilities of France with the guaranties due to Germany, short of a radical change in the War System itself.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner expresses skepticism about finding a solution to the tensions between France and Germany without fundamentally changing the war system.

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