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There is no country in the world, other than ours, where an officer guilty of such conduct, whether it came from incapacity or cowardice, would not have been promptly cashiered and probably shot.
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Hoar reflects on the consequences faced by military officers in other countries for similar conduct.
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He proceeded to attack, to promote his own ambitions, the fair name and fame of the Commonwealth itself.
It relates to matters more permanent than human life.
And now, after the war, another enemy, unarmed, but bringing even greater danger, menaces the Republic.
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