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Mandatory ID cards are un-British. If forced on us it will be yet another embedded freedom lost due to the cultural chaos and abuses of mass immigration. It always brings to mind this wonderful piece of writing by A. J. P. Taylor ⬇️ https://t.co/XbcDdWABVi

In Gibraltar, Dudley Clarke visited his friend from the Staff College, fluent German-speaker Kenneth Strong (later Eisenhower’s intelligence officer). After ‘interesting and revealing meetings at GHQ’ in Cairo, Clarke drove his car from Egypt through the Mitla Pass to Jerusalem. In the twenty years since Allenby had walked through the Jaffa Gate,

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While Eisenhower wrestled with the bookkeeping, MacArthur settled in. He’d met his second wife, Jean, on the trip over. His only son, Arthur MacArthur IV, was born in Manila, with Manuel Quezon as the godfather. MacArthur took up residence in the penthouse of the Parsons-designed Manila Hotel. He became a fixture of Manila society, even receiving a

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