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Just so: and in the House of Commons, 20 December, 1917, he said:

The League of Nations … was the avowed purpose, the very purpose … for which we entered the war and for which we are continuing the war.

You pays your money, you see, and takes your choice. The point to be made, however, is that one who has a strong case, a real case, never trifles with it in this way. Would the reader do it?

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