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1. Which Irish-born author claimed in his "Man and Superman" that "in the arts of peace, Man is a bungler"?
2. Who claimed in a talk with David Frost that "When the President does it, it is not illegal", later said he was not a "crook", but nonetheless got in trouble for his illegal presidential initiatives?
3. Who was married to a Lady Bird and said in a State of the Union speech to Congress: "This administration today, here and now declares unconditional war on poverty in America"?
4. Which of these "celebrities" said, belittlingly about the Falklands War of 1982 -in which his, her own country was involved- that it was a "fight between two bald men over a comb"?
5. Modern historians tend to be critical of the harsh terms applied to Germany after World War I in the "Treaty of Versailles" (1919). Which of these French war veterans (born at Tarbes; died during the Interbellum) also was critical of the terms, but felt they were not harsh enough and warned his countrymen that in his view, it was not a solid peace-treaty, but only a 20-year armistice?
6. Which Italian politician was belatedly aware that, halfway World War II, the tide was changing against his country and disappointedly noted in his diary that "Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan"?
7. Who asked at the Potsdam Conference in 1945 to Britain's Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill:
"Mr. Churchill, Mr. Prime Minister, how many divisions did you say the Pope had?"
8. Even members of the Labour Party occasionally had their hesitations about democracy as a political system. Which of these was an ex-Prime-Minister of Great Britain in 1957 and said in a speech at Oxford, on 14th of June of that year : "Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective, if you can stop people talking."
9. "Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few" was a critical comment from an ex-member of the Fabian Society:________________
10. How must this quotation from a speech by Sir Winston Churchill to the French people in the first year of World War II be completed: "We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So ________________ "?
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