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To our refusal to accept the French view of German duplicity and to our failure to regard the peace treaties as binding, many of our present troubles are due.

— Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone The Left was Never Right (1945)

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If the British public falls for this, I think it would be stark, staring bonkers.

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