From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.

Here the two great interests Imperium et Libertas, res olim insociabiles (saith Tacitus), began to incounter each other.

It [Chinese Labour in South Africa] could not, in the opinion of His Majesty's Government, be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.

A sheep in sheep's clothing.