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There are two kinds of imperialists - imperialists and bloody imperialists.

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Rebecca West
Age: 90 †
Born: 1892
Born: December 21
Died: 1983
Died: March 15
Author
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Suffragette
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London
England
Cicely Isabel Fairfield
Dame Cicely Isabel Fairfield
Imperialism
Bloody
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