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🏴Eric Reginald Pleasants (front center). Pleasants was in the SS pioneer boxing team. In November 1944 he travelled to Prague to box against the SS police team for the final of the SS boxing championship. 1945 he had officially joined the SS(British…
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Francisco Franco presents the Grand Cross of the Order of Isabel la Católica to Saddam Hussein, then Vice President of Iraq (1974)
Iraqi Vice President Saddam Hussein during his visit to Spain in the mid-1970s.
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Iraqi Vice President Saddam Hussein during his visit to Spain in the mid-1970s.
Deputy Chairman of the RCC Saddam Hussein and Juan Carlos I of Spain in Baghdad, June 23, 1978.
Forwarded from Archiving Irish Diversity Stuff (AIDS)
In the 1930s, an organisation known as the Irish Monarchist Society, whose members included Francis Stuart and Osmonde Esmonde, plotted to overthrow the Irish Free State and establish an independent Irish Catholic monarchy under a member of the O'Neill dynasty
It was more or less just pub talk though and nothing serious, funny footnote though
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Monarchist_Society
It was more or less just pub talk though and nothing serious, funny footnote though
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Monarchist_Society
"As a man, he is forceful and transparently honest: as a
politician he is, what all politicians under pressure seem
to become, an expediency-merchant, equivocal and apt to bend political principle to what may seem to be the advantage of the moment. This characteristic is the more marked in that lan Smith, to what extent consciously one does not know, has allowed a totally false image to emerge from the tremendous legend built around him.
politician he is, what all politicians under pressure seem
to become, an expediency-merchant, equivocal and apt to bend political principle to what may seem to be the advantage of the moment. This characteristic is the more marked in that lan Smith, to what extent consciously one does not know, has allowed a totally false image to emerge from the tremendous legend built around him.
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"As a man, he is forceful and transparently honest: as a politician he is, what all politicians under pressure seem to become, an expediency-merchant, equivocal and apt to bend political principle to what may seem to be the advantage of the moment. This…
That image is of a mighty champion of the Right-Wing — and it is simply not true. Smith is not even a Right-Winger.
He is a man of the Centre and, if anything, a shade left of Centre. His political antecedents are liberal. His present attitude, as shown by his acceptance of an
unimpeded advance to African rule, is liberal. His view of the future, a fully integrated Rhodesian nation in 20 years, is liberal. Whatever doubts and
misgivings he may have about the hand-over, within a measurable period of years, they are for all practical purposes obliterated by his overwhelming sense of inevitability"."
- AK Chesterton on Rhodesian PM Ian Smith
He is a man of the Centre and, if anything, a shade left of Centre. His political antecedents are liberal. His present attitude, as shown by his acceptance of an
unimpeded advance to African rule, is liberal. His view of the future, a fully integrated Rhodesian nation in 20 years, is liberal. Whatever doubts and
misgivings he may have about the hand-over, within a measurable period of years, they are for all practical purposes obliterated by his overwhelming sense of inevitability"."
- AK Chesterton on Rhodesian PM Ian Smith
Forwarded from Tradition of the sword
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