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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: contained the information of the suspension of the arrangements for
the municipal government." There the correspondence ceased. And
on the 18th January came the last step of this irritating intrigue
when Tamasese appointed a judge - and the judge proved to be
Martin.
Thus was the adventure of the Castle Municipal achieved by Sir
Becker the chivalrous. The taxes of Apia, the gaol, the police,
all passed into the hands of Tamasese-Brandeis; a German was
secured upon the bench; and the German flag might wave over her
puppet unquestioned. But there is a law of human nature which
diplomatists should be taught at school, and it seems they are not;
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