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into their own hands and incidentally [underlined]
all its money values. Now you went to
war for an American principle and by
God why don't you stick to that
principle? You know now the kind of
statesmen America has had to deal with
in Europe; that we went into action
understanding certain conditions and
you know how those conditions were
violated. If I mentioned only Shantung [Shandong],
that would be ample evidence against
the integrity of our allies' diplomats.

Now what would you have us do?