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The gibers are beginning to say: Ah! Another Conference! Fortyfive nations! A thousand experts! What folly! What extravagance! Yes, what extravagance — a thousand experts, financial, diplomatic, economic. They are cheaper than military experts. Their retenue is a smaller one.1
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Kaufmann, J. (1996). Conference Diplomacy Defined and Objectives of Conferences. In: Conference Diplomacy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24913-8_2
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