Whom Shall We Hang?: The Sebastopol Inquiry (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Purpose of protecting Turkey and of compelling Russia to abandon pretensions which natural justice and the true policy of the Western Powers alike condemned. In this country, even more than among our allies, the war was highly popular. The nation which the rest of the world regarded as wholly absorbed in the sordid pursuit of wealth, was more clamorous for the fray than the people who are commonly considered as pre-eminently martial. Certainly, whatever might be the claims of commerce and of the arts of peace upon as, they were forgotten in the dreams of military glory, and in the indignation at oppression which swelled the popular cry to arms; and the few voices that were raised to give warning of the sufferings which the victors must share with the vanquished, were unheard or disregarded. As is usual at the.

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