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"You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down."

Conor Cruise O'Brien, Irish Politician

Certainty, Nations, United, Will

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"You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down."

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