A World Parliamentary Assembly functioning outside the United Nations, or a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly set up as … - Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

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Let me not be weak and tell others how bleeding I am internally; how day by day it drips, and gathers, and congeals.

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