Word: diplomats
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...have a policy - not approved by Congress - which he may carry out in secret to a point where the nation, without knowing the facts or the justice of the cause, may be forced into a war. * * * * It is hardly necessary to reiterate the oft-repeated criticism, that our diplomatic service is in need of reform. It is safe to say, without any undue criticism of Mr. Egan, that if we had a trained diplomat in Chile, and naval officers more inclined to follow the strict letter of their instructions, there would have been no '"Chilean imbroglio...