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17. The Prime Minister mentioned that a more radical stand on some issues might have enabled the party to have avoided defeat. 18. There were signs that this tour might have marked a turning point. 19. He should remember that his own pitiless decision to flatten Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, might have succeeded in bringing in the worst days of the ascendancy of men without pity. 20. The impression that the Government and the G.P.O.[16] are prepared to turn a blind eye on the operations of the radio pirate stations has been encouraged by the delay in introducing legislation to outlaw them. The legislation is more complex than might have been imagined. The penalty clauses may well require requisition of the company's assets on land as well as the stations. 21. It was the sort of message for which the smaller members of the alliance may well have been waiting. 22. In the opinion of some political connoisseurs, that measure may well improve the prospects of the Conservative party with the nation as a whole. 23. The British Premier and the French President might well talk also about the Middle East — a region which, least .of all, has claims, to being called static. 24. The Norwegian Foreign Minister has said that the Security Council might well be given greater powers over the financing of peacekeeping. 25. Discussions could explore the economic problems that might follow disarmament and the question of security. 26. The strain must have been particularly telling on a man like Mr D., one of the most conscientious of the Government's back-bench MPs. He was involved in a car accident last session, but continued to attend to Commons duties on crutches. 100
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