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Democratic Ideals and Reality

DEMOCRATIC AND REALITY

IDEALS A Study

in the Politics of Reconstruction by the RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR HALFORD J. MACKINDER
Privy Counsellor; lately Chairman of the Imperial Shipping Committee; formerly Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science and Professor of Geography in the University of London; and at one time Reader in Geography in the University. of Oxford. Author o f " B r i t a i n and the British Seas."

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by
STEPHEN V. MLADINEO

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