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It's troubling to see how often Winston Churchill is a proponent of massive programs that are really aimed at civilians - starvation blockades and chemical warfare stockpiles and so on.

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Nicholson Baker
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 7
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Programs
Troubling
Massive
Churchill
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Aimed
Often
Starvation
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Civilians
Stockpiles
Chemical
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Winston

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