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The IRA in government, murderers walking the streets, the pro-british majority hopelessly split between the naive wishful thinkers and the more realistic ones who are pilloried for being the problem, whilst the IRA (called "dissident" this time round rather than "Provisional" as before - though like the muslim agitators in England, the title of their club might change but the membership remains the same) continue to cause more murder and mayhem, and the appeasers sing their old refrain - something about "hearts and minds" I think.
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As soon as that was announced these moslem feudal land barons left the pro-british Unionist party which had strongly supported the continuation of british ruleraj in India in droves and scrambled to join Jinnah’s Muslim League.
The Attack in Lahore and the Response Online - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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