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Bill Taft: “It must be admitted that occasionally a revolution in this region is justified as a real popular movement to throw off…”

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It must be admitted that occasionally a revolution in this region is justified as a real popular movement to throw off the shackles of a vicious and tyrannical government.
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Bill Taft
Republican · Ohio

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Taft acknowledged that some revolutions in Central America may be justified as popular uprisings against tyranny.

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