It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empir…

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It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind. ✨ Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963, Atheneum
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It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind. ✨ Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963, Atheneum

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