“I always think that it is entirely wrong to prejudge the past.”

— William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw

On his arrival in Northern Ireland, quoted in his obituary in the Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/jul/02/guardianobituaries.obituaries
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 1972-73

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