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Thursday, August 1, 2013

1984

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception 

"The qualities that have helped to keep our freedom intact twice already during this sad century will once more be our strength."

Those are just some of the stirring words the Queen was expected to have used in a speech to the British public if nuclear war had erupted in the 1980s, a newly-released archive document reveals.

Read more here and decide if her address would have inspired people at the time: http://bbc.in/11wwh3m

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