Pray tell, how may I enter negotiations again in the knowledge that five years down the line, our agreement will be arbitrarily discarded and myself once more made to be a villain? How can I accept the Administration at its word when it has so swiftly reversed its policy towards us, from peaceable cooperation to wanton aggression? A perpetual patent is not a scrap of paper, to be signed and dismissed per convenience; it is a binding, legal agreement. A further patent may be developed, but the original agreement cannot be revoked without incurring the greatest infamy.
If a candidate steps forward who is willing to treat with us once more on a basis of respect and transparency, then I will duly return to the table. But I tell you know: those who persist in attempting to force our hand by threats of invasion shall find themselves empty-handed.
- President Charles Maximilien de Conti
If a candidate steps forward who is willing to treat with us once more on a basis of respect and transparency, then I will duly return to the table. But I tell you know: those who persist in attempting to force our hand by threats of invasion shall find themselves empty-handed.
- President Charles Maximilien de Conti