[Gutenberg 17998] • Before the War

Excerpt from Before the War

Peril the very Object which Parliament and the public have directed those responsible to them to seek to attain. What is objected to in secret diplomacy hardly includes that which from its very nature must be negotiated in the first instance between individuals.

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