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John Derbyshire: ‘Mandela and I go back a long way’

March 14, 2013 By Kathy Shaidle

Derb:

Mandela was already in jail and had surely never heard of the University College, London Student Union. He was the leftist cause of the day, though, and thus he was elected honorary president. To their credit, the college Conservative (as in “Tory”) Society put up a creditable rearguard action, arguing that Mandela was a communist terrorist. They were, of course, right.

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