World War 1
At the start of the war cruise liners in Portsmouth Harbour were used to hold detained aliens.
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“I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw
Or heard or felt came not but from myself;
And there I found myself more truly and more strange.”
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“It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.”
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