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Re: [A-List] Re: [A-List] ¡No Pasaran!


Bob Enoch wrote:
>
>  "They Shall Not Pass!"
>  {The cry of the Loyal Republican anit-fascists of Spain, 1936.
>  The struggle does indeed continue.
>  It is no wonder the bosses fear that spectre!}
>
> ------
>
> The Spanish borrowed it from General Petain ( of all people ), who famously
> uttered the lines at Verdun, in 1916.
> Sounds much better in Spanish.
>
> Bob

Horatius was supposed to have said something like that, too, wasn't he?
At the bridge with the Etruscans, like?
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