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bba5461 | The English are very proud of their Parliament, and week in, week out, century after century, they have pretty good cause to be. | parliament-of-the-united-kingdom | Martha Gellhorn | |
a22b9d5 | What was new to our ears these days, and thrilling to hear, was the steadiness and justice of those who spoke, the abscence of panic and exaggeration the quiet insistence on legal processes as opposed to trial by suspicion. McCarthyism so repelled the English that they take special care not to be infected by it. | parliament-of-the-united-kingdom | Martha Gellhorn |