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<
Portal:University of Oxford
|
Selected quotation
“
I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.
”
—
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
, at the time
Leader of the House of Lords
and later
Secretary of State for War
, in a speech in 1937
Source
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The Hutchinson Illustrated Encyclopedia of British History (edited by Simon Hall)
