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The Great Prince Shan

CHAPTER XII
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I am firmly convinced that the days of wars are over.

The government of every country in the world is getting into the hands of the democracy, and the democracy don't want war and never did.

If any of the more quarrelsome folk on the continent get scrapping, well, my conception of my duty is to keep out of it." Monsieur Pouilly restrained himself.

To judge from his appearance, however, it was not altogether an easy matter.
"You belong, sir," he said, "to a type of statesman whose rise to power in this country some of us have watched with a certain amount of concern, for although it is not my mission here to-day to talk politics, I am yet bound to remind you that you do not stand alone.

The very League of Nations upon which you rely imposes certain obligations upon you, some actual, some understood.


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