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Source: The Guardian

10-31-14

Paying the price of war: Britain makes good on historic debts

Debts from bonds issued in 1927 by Winston Churchill going back to the South Sea Bubble, Napoleonic and Crimean wars.

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Paying the price of war: Britain makes good on historic debts