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At any rate, it would be inevitable; since no one is wild enough to believe that Porto Rico can be turned back to Spain, or bartered away, or abandoned by the generation that took it.
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Whitelaw Reid
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gutenberg.orgWhitelaw Reid: “At any rate, it would be inevitable; since no one is wild enough to believe that Porto Rico can be turned back to Spain…”
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Reid asserts that Porto Rico cannot be returned to Spain or abandoned by the United States.
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