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From ‘News of the Week’, The Spectator, 6 March 1915:

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Patrick O’Flynn

Why didn’t Sunak listen to Braverman’s migration warning?

The great German campaign against our shipping, under which we were to be cut off from all human aid and every merchant ship that dared to approach our ports torpedoed and sunk, has ended in what can only be called an amazing fiasco.

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