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5%)

present troubles are upon us either because we remained

passive and gave no lead at all or because we led in a

direction so humiliating that the other Powers notably

Japan refused to follow. I fully associate myself therefore

with Lampson's recommendationthat we should have our plans

for coercive action ready betimes.