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Winston Churchill

#28: July - Sept. 2006 (Non-Fiction)
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Re: Winston Churchill

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There's generally a delay between the time certain facts become known and the time when top policy makers start taking those facts into account.If wouldn't surprise me if British diplomats underestimated the strategic significance of Middle East petroleum reserves.
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