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Selected Speeches on British Foreign Policy
by Edgar Jones

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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Selected Speeches on British Foreign Policy

1738-1914, Edited by Edgar Jones

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Title: Selected Speeches on British Foreign Policy 1738-1914

Editor: Edgar Jones

Release Date: February 8, 2004 [eBook #10990]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

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SELECTED SPEECHES ON BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY 1738-1914

EDITED BY EDGAR R. JONES, M.P.

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This volume of 'Selected Speeches on British Foreign Policy' was first published in 'The World's Classics' in 1914

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PREFACE

A selection of speeches made for the purpose of illustrating the best rhetorical form of British Oratory has already been published in 'The World's Classics'. The governing principle of this volume is not rhetorical quality, but historical interest. Speeches have been selected from the earliest days of reporting downwards, dealing with such phases of foreign policy as are of exceptional interest at present. They have been chosen so as to cover a variety of international crises affecting various states.

In such a selection some very interesting speeches h

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