Portal:University of Oxford/Selected quotation/55

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|quote=I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.

|link=Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

|detail=at the time Leader of the House of Lords and later Secretary of State for War, in a speech in 1937

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Source

  • [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Djtw3jEPn5sC&pg=PA162&lpg=PA162 The Hutchinson Illustrated Encyclopedia of British History (edited by Simon Hall)]