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supreme object and so much else in common. But imagine what 
      the difficulties are in countries racked by Civil War past or 
      impending and where clusters of petty parties have each their 
      own set of appetites misdeeds and revenges. If I had driven the 
      wife of the Deputy Prime Minister out to die in the snow, if 
      the Minister of Labour had kept the Foreign Secretary in exile 
      for a great many years, if the Chancellor of the Exchequer had 
      shot at and wounded the Secretary of State or War or the head 
      of one or other of the great spending departments, if we who 
      sit here together had back-bitten and double-crossed each other 
      while pretending to work together and had all put our own group 
      or party first and the country nowhere and had all set ideologies 
      slogans or labels in front of comprehension comradeship and duty 
      we should certainly to put it at the mildest have Come to a general 
             election much sooner than is now likely.       
 
                                                            
 
 
When men have wished very much kill Each other and have feared 
      very much that they will be killed quite soon it is not possible 
      for them next day to work together as friends with colleagues 
      against whom they have nursed such intentions or from whom they 
      have drived such fears. We must recognize the difference between 
      our affairs and those which prevailed in Athens especially while 
      the firing