"The Wars of the Roses arent’s dead yet: It's all rivalry between the two! good-natured, certainly, but keen enough all the same—until some hapless visitor from another country dares to criticise one or other of them. Then it's Yorks, and Lancs, against the world, together: ‘our friends the enemy,’ sort of thing—the ‘backbone on its mettle.’’ —A 8.8. C. speaker in a discussion in “The Backbone of England" series.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 January 1944, Page 2
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