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““a foreign affair juxtaposed with a stateside and domestically approved romantic fancy is mysteriously attractive due to circumstances knowing it will only be parlayed into a memory””

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Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.

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I studied political science and international relations and had the intention of becoming a journalist or work in foreign affairs. I had no intention…

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It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.

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