"It’s the thought that this vulgar little
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“It’s the thought that this vulgar little madman can stretch out his hand over half the world and force a decent sea-captain to do a dishonourable action that makes one sick. That’s really what we are fighting about—the utter submission of the individual conscience to an ugly system in the hands of one unscrupulous gangster.”
- Miss Letitia Martin, Dean of Shrewsbury College, Oxford, to Lady Peter Wimsey at Talboys. December 18, 1939. (The Wimsey Papers, Pt. VII, published in The Spectator on December 29, 1939)
“It’s the thought that this vulgar little madman can stretch out his hand over half the world and force a decent sea-captain to do a dishonourable action that makes one sick. That’s really what we are fighting about—the utter submission of the individual conscience to an ugly system in the hands of one unscrupulous gangster.”
- Miss Letitia Martin, Dean of Shrewsbury College, Oxford, to Lady Peter Wimsey at Talboys. December 18, 1939. (The Wimsey Papers, Pt. VII, published in The Spectator on December 29, 1939)
