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Churchill was fundamentally what the English call unstable - by which they mean anybody who has that touch of genius which is inconvenient in normal times.
Harold MacMillan
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Harold MacMillan
Age: 92 †
Born: 1894
Born: February 10
Died: 1986
Died: December 29
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