[OT] The more things change . . .



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Keith Willoughby

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.. . . 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

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