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#second world war

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Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself.


Cordell Hull


#attendant #become #breathe #cast #circumstances

What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.


Tahar Ben Jelloun


#allowed #average #bourgeois #end #everything

More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's one in 10 of all the British servicemen lost in the Second World War. It beggars belief that there has not been some recognition for what they gave until now.


Carol Vorderman


#beggars #belief #bomber #british #command

And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.


Patrick Macnee


#allowed #because #censored #doing #just

The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims.


Jean-Marie Le Pen


#millions #second #second world war #tens #victims

I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if we're completely living in it.


Tom Hooper


#back #because #completely #connected #dad

These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges.


Alistair Cooke


#become #colleges #doomsday #expert #lab

If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail.


Jean-Marie Le Pen


#calls #camps #chambers #concentration #detail

When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.


Jean-Marie Le Pen


#chambers #concentration #five #gas #gas chambers

I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War.


Jimmy Carter


#administration #any #average #batting #democrats






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