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5266. MINISTERS (Foreign), Verbal communications.—
Verbal communications
are very insecure; for it is only necessary to
deny them or to change their terms, in order
to do away their effect at any time. Those in
writing have many and obvious advantages, and
ought to be preferred.—
To Thomas Pinckeny. Washington ed. iv, 63.
Ford ed., vi, 416.
(Pa.,
1793)
See Diplomatic Establishment.
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