With indefensible exaggeration, it was changed by the British nation, backed by the British Government, into a casus belli,--as if an unauthorized incident, obviously involving no question of self-defence, could justify war between two civilized nations.
Sumner argues that an incident was exaggerated by Britain to justify war, despite it not being a legitimate cause for conflict.
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