“Judah knows the trow will be eradicated and their homes lost to history, but he will not be party to it, and he has tried to stand in its way.”
“Anamnesis” (p. 191)
Iron Council (2004)
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Speech at the XIIIth Party Congress (May 1924)

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Irving Berlin, quoted in Puttin' on the Ritz, BBC Programme Acquisition, 1999.