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[OT] The more things change . . .

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Keith Willoughb
  
. . . the more they stay the same.

I'm currently reading The People's War by Angus Calder.
We're currently in 1939/1940, the Phony War. The blackout
has doubled the number of RTA.

Page 65,

| Meanwhile, the motorists' spokesmen were still showing
| plenty of fight; when a speed limit of 20mph in built-up
| areas was imposed, to begin in February, they denounced
| the 'Nazi methods' of the authorities and declared they
| would encourage careless pedestrianism

--
Keith Willoughby http://flat222.org/keith/ "Taffy was a
Welshman, Taffy was a thief"

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