"Rough men stand ready . . ." (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Jonathan Lighter]

GB turned up nothing for "Churchill" as the author either.

It is just conceivable that GB simply didn't scan the page - somewhere - on
which the enigmatic sentence first appears.

JL

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 6:24 PM, victor steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrote:

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