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“‘What’s the use of a league of nations if it’s to be dominated by Great Britain and her colonies?’ ….
‘But don’t you think any kind of league is better than nothing?’ ….
‘It’s not the name you give things, it’s who’s getting theirs underneath that counts.’ ….
‘That’s a very cynical remark.’ ….
‘This is a time … when if we aren’t cynical we’d shoot ourselves.’”
— John Dos Passos, 1919 (1932)
#books #fiction #history #politics #uk #usa
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