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I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.

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Peter Ustinov
Age: 82 †
Born: 1921
Born: April 16
Died: 2004
Died: March 28
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Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov
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