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Young Buchan Song Sung Wrong (53* d) RE: Song Sung Wrong 31 Aug 10


Decca Mitford called a volume of autobiography A Fine Old Conflict because, she claimed, when her Nanny used to take her for walks through Hyde Park Corner she thought the Communists were singing 'It is a fine old conflict, let each stand in his place' rather than 'It is the final conflict...'

Actually I've always been rather doubtful about that story because British communists normally sang the translation which goes 'Comrades come rally, and the last fight let us face, till the Internationale unites the human race', rather than the Final Conflict translation which is popular in America (where of course she lived in later life).


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