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Mayor Van Beusekom Quotes

Two of the best book quotes from Mayor Van Beusekom
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″‘That’s going to cost the lives of yet more thousands of ordinary civilians,’ said Mrs. Van Beusekom, with a sigh... ‘It’s their own fault,’ said the mayor. ‘They were the first to drop bombs on cities- Warsaw and Rotterdam. What goes around comes around.’ ‘No. It’s absolutely nothing to do with that little girl in Bremen who just got a piece of shrapnel in her leg,’ said Mrs. Van Beusekom. ‘War is a terrible thing.‘”
Jan Terlouw
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Winter in Wartime
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Mrs. Van Beusekom
Mayor Van Beusekom
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war
getting what you deserve
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terrible
bombs
innocent lives
victims of war
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″‘A good resistance fighter is lonely,’ he’d once heard his father say. ‘He’s alone with his tasks and his secrets.‘”

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