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‘There must be no thought of who is a Liberal and who a Unionist’

Sir Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, speaking at Enfield, 1915 (Photo: Getty) 
issue 23 May 2015

From ‘A National Government’, Spectator, 22 May 1915: When we wrote last week there seemed little possibility that our hopes for the formation of a National Government would be fulfilled. Yet on Tuesday a National Government was in process of construction… We have followed the Roman example. We have named a Dictator — but we have put the Dictatorship in commission.

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