“I am confirmed in my opinion that it is hopeless here. All we can do is arm the Orangemen – to the teeth – and get out.”

—  Alan Clark

January 30, 1991; page 395.
On the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Diaries: In Power (1993)

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