Bit of trivia

Extract from a very famous letter.

Bet you cannot guess who wrote it, and to whom it was sent.

"Stop sending people to kill me. We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle. [...] If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send one to Moscow, and I won't have to send a second."

Djon Vejn was a Yugoslav!

this Mon

who said this
" I saw a cow climb up a tree " ?

Tom, I'm impressed ifn you got it bowt googling.

I chased a bug around a tree,
I’ll have his blood, he knows I will.
A bug, a bug, a bug, I chased,
the bug around a tree.

I caught that bug and asked, "Tell me,
Oh bug, why do you pester me?"
He said, in all sincerity,
"For curiosity!"
For cu... for cu... for cu... for cu...
For curiosity.

Ena, I googled it,

Answer to my trivia is,

Gerard Cunliffe , A character of Bryn had this little saying that he quoted whenever someone tried to tell a tale of questionable honesty

I saw a cow climb up a tree,
same ole cow
same ole tree
same ole effin' liar,

Yes

History it must be remembered is no more than his story.

And often does not fit well with the available evidence.

An easy one, now, but topical.

“You have sat there too long for all the good you have done, In the name of God, go!"

So, who is David Davis quoting?