“I know what you mean. But I think it safer to stay with institutions, if you don’t mind. In that way we are spared the embarrassment of personalities. After all, that’s what institutions are for, isn’t it?”
― The Honourable Schoolboy
― The Honourable Schoolboy
“At the conclusion of the First World War it was borders that were invented and adjusted, while people were on the whole left in place.6 After 1945 what happened was rather the opposite: with one major exception boundaries stayed broadly intact and people were moved instead.”
― Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
― Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
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