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Here lies the real terror in the international war of ideologies that a city knows not whom it entertains.
Rebecca West
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Rebecca West
Age: 90 †
Born: 1892
Born: December 21
Died: 1983
Died: March 15
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London
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Cicely Isabel Fairfield
Dame Cicely Isabel Fairfield
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