“If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.”
Source: Under the Greenwood Tree
“What we have to do is to doom the slums. And we have done it. It is going to take a year or two. We are not only going to doom slums, we are going to doom overcrowding. Next Session the House of Commons will...pass legislation which is going to doom overcrowding as we have already doomed the slums.”
Speech in Southampton (13 November 1934), quoted in The Times (14 November 1934), p. 16
1930s
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