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He is used to dealing with estate workers. I cannot see how anyone can say he is out of touch.

...the first casualty (of this crisis) had been the United Nations. It would need an immense effort, an almost superhuman effort, to restore the prestige of that organization

Why employ intelligent and highly paid ambassadors and then go and do their work for them? You don't buy a canary and sing yourself.

The doctor unfortunately said I was fit.

Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.

"a fatal and perhaps fateful error of judgment" "...this was the last chance for the United Nations to get a grip on themselves and apply the principles of their Charter"

There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.

My wife had an uncle who could never walk down the nave of an abbey without wondering whether it would take spin.

There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.

Why employ intelligent and highly paid ambassadors and then go and do their work for them? You don't buy a canary and sing yourself.

The doctor unfortunately said I was fit.

...the first casualty (of this crisis) had been the United Nations. It would need an immense effort, an almost superhuman effort, to restore the prestige of that organization

"a fatal and perhaps fateful error of judgment" "...this was the last chance for the United Nations to get a grip on themselves and apply the principles of their Charter"

My wife had an uncle who could never walk down the nave of an abbey without wondering whether it would take spin.

Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.