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    Which question was understood by only three people in Europe?

    Question #21913. Asked by poppy. (Aug 27 02 8:39 PM)


    Tabby Tom

    		'Palmerston said later that only three people ever understood the Schleswig-Holstein Question: the Prince Consort, who was dead, a clerk at the Foreign Office who went mad, and himself -- and he had forgotten.'

    From http://65.107.211.206/history/pms/palmerst.html


    Aug 28 02, 10:55 AM

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