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because, if the territory be Russia’s she has decidedly
never abandoned it, and if it is not Russia’s, it has
never had an owner, so that it can not be said to be
abandoned. The claim of occupation alone remains. And
this, as I have attempted to show, can have weight only
if the occupation was not an invasion of rights of Russia
previously recognized.