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and upon the acceptance of their pledge to disarm: "Those pledges were never kept. Within two years of our withdrawal the Army
Estimates of the "democratic" German Government went up by leaps and bounds to an unprecedented degree". Morgan asserted that: "If any one English statesman is to be held
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Germany did not disarm". He further claimed that the commission was withdrawn as the price for Germany's signature to the
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