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Excerpt from Address of Hon. Philander C. Knox, Before the National Civic Federation: New York, N. Y., December 11, 1911
It is usual to speak of the Department of State as the Department of Foreign Relations and to look upon it as the outgrowth of the older Department of Foreign Affairs which Was instituted about the beginning of the period of the Colonial Federation. How far this is an accurate statement may best appear from the historical records.
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