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Dean Acheson

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"I must plead guilty as any of escaping into immediate busywork to keep the far harder task of peering into a dim future, which, of course, should be one of a diplomat's main duties."

 
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What say you, good people?
"Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!"
Help this blackbird...

 
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