Myself, and the majority of officers in a position of command, will not execute unconditionally the orders of the Head of State.
Back in another untroubled summer, that of 1870, the British foreign secretary Lord Granville, gazing up from Whitehall, could detect not a cloud in the sky. Yet a month later, Europe would be torn as...
Peoples who have been waiting for their independence for a century, fighting for it for a generation, can afford to sit out a presidential term, or a year or two in the life of an old man in a hurry;