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After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.
Martha Gellhorn
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Martha Gellhorn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1908
Born: November 8
Died: 1998
Died: February 15
Journalist
Novelist
War Correspondent
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St. Louis
Missouri
Martha Ellis Gellhorn
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Human
Carriers
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Governments
Lifetime
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Disease
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