1969 a v young journo - virginia ironside - still scribbling and I am still not keen on her ( stupid slooppy shallow and flippant - a bit like the typical Aber really ) - commented that this ( 1969 ) would be the year that war broke out again, if 1940 had been the Great War
oo-er Mrs - post Cuba, during Brezhnev, - once communist always communist
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but then but then post 1815 - there was the great century of Peace. Russian commonplace was : we visited Paris in 1815 and can easily visit again you know - - and that was up to 1914