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Giovannino Guareschi - Those were the days when there...
Those were the days when there was a great deal of argument about that piece of international machinery known as the ‘ Atlantic Pact', which may have owed its name to the fact that between words and deeds there lies the breadth of an ocean. (Giovannino Guareschi)

Those were the days when there was a great deal of argument about that piece of international machinery known as the ‘ Atlantic Pact', which may have owed its name to the fact that between words and deeds there lies the breadth of an ocean.

Giovannino Guareschi

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