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|quote=That this House will in no circumstances fight for its King and Country.

|link=The King and Country debate{{!}}Motion at the "King and Country debate"

|detail=held at the Oxford Union in February 1933. The motion was carried by 275 votes to 133.

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Source

  • [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=3925428&fileId=S0018246X00016885 "The ‘King and Country’ Debate, 1933: Student Politics, Pacifism and the Dictators" (Martin Ceadel)]