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- ↑ Rasor, Eugene L. (2000). Winston S. Churchill, 1874-1965: a comprehensive historiography and annotated bibliography . Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 25. ISBN 0-313-30546-3., as available from Internet Archive.
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