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" When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia. "

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" I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot. "

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" When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives. "

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