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In such a state of feeling, artificially stimulated and ingeniously misled, the most brilliant diplomatic triumph would have had but slight chance of approval.
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Henry Cabot Lodge
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Lodge reflects on the challenges faced by diplomats in a politically charged environment, suggesting that even successful negotiations can be met with public disapproval.
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His country asked the sacrifice and he gave it with solemn pride and uncomplaining lips.
He was unfailingly attractive, because he was always perfectly natural and his own unconscious self.
But his own personal ideals he never attempted to thrust upon the world until the day came when they were to be translated into realities of action.
He preached unceasingly the familiar morals which lie at the bottom of both family and public life.