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Charles Sumner: “Claims and counter-claims were not merely suspended; they were formally abandoned.”

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Claims and counter-claims were not merely suspended; they were formally abandoned.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner notes the formal abandonment of claims and counter-claims in the treaty process.

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