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It requires an over - simplification of the issue , ' Oui ou non ' , and the matter is far too complicated and ... for such a question to be properly answered by millions of people who really cannot apply their minds to such matters .
It requires an over - simplification of the issue , ' Oui ou non ' , and the matter is far too complicated and ... for such a question to be properly answered by millions of people who really cannot apply their minds to such matters .
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The matter then lay dor- mant for five years , after which the Austrians got ready to take us to court , and briefed a very senior British counsel to represent them . On the day before the hearing our own eminent counsel had a heart ...
The matter then lay dor- mant for five years , after which the Austrians got ready to take us to court , and briefed a very senior British counsel to represent them . On the day before the hearing our own eminent counsel had a heart ...
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But the Captain was not a one for change , and no one would care to begin an argument with him on so important a matter . Captain Theodore O'Maddy , Royal Navy ( retired ) , was , to put it mildly , a martinet .
But the Captain was not a one for change , and no one would care to begin an argument with him on so important a matter . Captain Theodore O'Maddy , Royal Navy ( retired ) , was , to put it mildly , a martinet .
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