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Sir, - Neither Sinn Fein nor the Nazi Party can be credited with inventing the "two handed" strategy

From D.B. O'KENNEDY
Mon Oct 21 1996 - 01:00

Sir, - Neither Sinn Fein nor the Nazi Party can be credited with inventing the "two handed" strategy. That distinction belongs to an 18th century English clergyman, who attributed the conquest of Ceylon to use of "a bible in one hand, and a musket in the other".

Yours, etc.,

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