Word: dispossession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following month, I was informed that Mr. Cummins must withdraw at once, owing to insulting letters written by him to the Government. The letters were written owing to the Mexican Government seeking to dispossess Mrs. Evans, a British subject, of her farm. The proceedings as reported to me were irregular and illegal and Mr. Cummins would have been lacking in his duty had he made no representations in her behalf...
Radicals and their friends seem to suffer from an elephantiasis of the sense of fair play. This sense shrinks to the bourgeois normal when radicalism becomes respectable, as in Russia. In this country the radicals hardly promise a "square deal" to those whom they seek to dispossess of power. If we seek to dispossess of power. If we seek to dispossess the radicals of the power they now have, is it just to apply their own maxims against them? "He who seeks justice must come with clean hands." J. M. WOOD...