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- 1 2 Gwynfor Evans, For the Sake of Wales, pp. 60, 138
- ↑ "Abi Williams – arweinydd a gweithiwr diflino", Welsh Nation, March 1963
- 1 2 3 4 5 Alan Butt Philip, The Welsh Question: Nationalism in Welsh Politics, 1945–1970, p.73
- ↑ "Evans, Gwynfor Richard", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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