"The Heroine who humbled me": extract from the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown's book Courage Eight Portraits"

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“They have all been very kind to me here. But this I would say, standing as I do in view of God and eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.”

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