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Angus Macnab
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “british fascist politician who was a close associate of william joyce who later became noted as a perennialist”. Today it says “british fascist politician who embraced roman catholicism under the influence of g”.
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Angus Macnab (1906–1977) was a British conservative politician who embraced Roman Catholicism under the influence of G. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc, who was a close associate of William Joyce , and who later became noted as a Perennialist writer on Medieval Spain and translator of Latin and Greek poetry.1
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Then
british fascist politician who was a close associate of william joyce who later became noted as a perennialist
Now
british fascist politician who embraced roman catholicism under the influence of g
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