Quotes
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Cecil King : It's absurd. That a man of Lord Mountbatten's achievements, Supreme Allied Commander for South East Asia, one of the chief architects of the invasion of occupied Europe, which, incidentally, won us the war, should be told by a man who's achieved what? Nothing. Broken his promises, crippled the economy, run this great country into the ground... .that he, Mountbatten, is surplus to requirements? It's not absurd. It's obscene.
[door closes]
Cecil King : But where one door closes, another opens. "There is special providence in such a fall. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all."
