Night of the long knives
Sir,—Your reviewer of Max Gallo’s “The Night of the Long Knives” in today’s issue of "The Press” states that it was the purge of the Brownshirts in Germany in June, 1934, which gave riseto this phrase in the first place. 'Unfortunately, this phrase has been in use a lot longer than 40 years. Long before the Norman Conquest in the ancient wars between Welsh and Saxons one such incident was called “Brad y Cyllyll Hirion” which mean's "the treacherv of the lone knives.”—Yours, etc.. ALAN CONWAY. March 16, 1974.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33487, 19 March 1974, Page 12
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