Aspirations published as principles without an attached route do more damage than silence, because they arouse expectations that then have to be disappointed, and the collapse takes the whole hope with it rather than only the excess.

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  Wilson's ends floated too freely above means, nowhere more so than in his claim that the resolution of Balkan rivalries, like the one, presumably, that had ignited the Great War, required only friendly counsel along historically determined lines of a

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