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Page xlvi
... foreign nations . All the practised acumen of anti - Government writers and speakers is sure to be engaged in proving that England has been imposed upon - that , as was said in one case , " The moral and the intellectual qualities have ...
... foreign nations . All the practised acumen of anti - Government writers and speakers is sure to be engaged in proving that England has been imposed upon - that , as was said in one case , " The moral and the intellectual qualities have ...
Page xlvii
... foreign nations . And they would seriously hurt themselves if they did . But still these are the real tendencies of ... foreign policy , if Ministers were obliged to explain clearly their foreign contracts before they were valid , just ...
... foreign nations . And they would seriously hurt themselves if they did . But still these are the real tendencies of ... foreign policy , if Ministers were obliged to explain clearly their foreign contracts before they were valid , just ...
Page xlviii
... foreign compacts . " Treaties , ” it is said , " are in one great respect different from laws , they concern not only the Government which binds , the nation so bound , but a third party too - a foreign country -and the feelings of that ...
... foreign compacts . " Treaties , ” it is said , " are in one great respect different from laws , they concern not only the Government which binds , the nation so bound , but a third party too - a foreign country -and the feelings of that ...
Page xlix
... foreign country . A Parliamentary Minister is a man trained by elaborate practice not to blurt out crude things , and an English Parliament is an assembly which particularly dislikes anything gauche or anything imprudent . They would ...
... foreign country . A Parliamentary Minister is a man trained by elaborate practice not to blurt out crude things , and an English Parliament is an assembly which particularly dislikes anything gauche or anything imprudent . They would ...
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... foreign treaties before they were valid we should much augment the power of the House of Lords . And this is also , I think , a just objection as far as it goes . The House of Lords as it cannot turn out the Ministry for making treaties ...
... foreign treaties before they were valid we should much augment the power of the House of Lords . And this is also , I think , a just objection as far as it goes . The House of Lords as it cannot turn out the Ministry for making treaties ...
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