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When Don Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, third Duke of Alba, was dying, the priest asked him if he had forgiven his enemies. The 16th-Century tyrant answered: "I have no enemies; I have hanged them...
Britain's Economist gave Britain's young Labor Government some advice on how to pay off its staggering $16 to $20 billion external war debt: 1) Britain should ask that a portion (20-25%) of each debt be forgiven-because Britain often had to buy at grossly inflated foreign prices; 2) Britain should then agree to pay an equivalent amount of the debt immediately, and in cash; 3) Britain should give her note for the remaining...
...Churchill, Manitoba's port on Hudson Bay, chugged a trainload of some 200 Army engineers, quartermasters, signal men and maintenance men. They had been holed up in dreary, chilly U.S. outposts in the far north for so long (some of them for two years) that they could be forgiven for chalking on the sides of their U.S. Pullmans: "Back To God's Country...
Paget brought General Humbolt up from Beirut to show him what the French Army had done to Damascus. After touring the streets in a British staff car, Humbolt sacked Roget. The Arabs had neither forgotten nor forgiven the shelling of Damascus by the French in 1925. Now they recalled that the French Government removed General Maurice Sarrail for that atrocity-and that the city was shelled again the following year...
...enemies forgiven...