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Article: Francis Russell, RIP. (obituary)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- April 21, 1989
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"Do YOU RECALL when we first met?" he wrote to me December. "It was at the NR weekly meeting in 1958. 1 brought with me Paul Keating, a friend of my Dublin days and then some sort of second secretary for Ireland at the United Nations. He later became Irish ambassador to England, then to the UN, and died not too tong after that. One slack day he let me sit on the UN floor with him, poised between Israel and Iraq. Iraq was still a kingdom, and the man sitting next to us was hanged by his heels in Baghdad following the revolution there. Paul did not much like Irish-American politicians and used to go to the Hungarian Catholic church in New York to avoid them. A devout ...
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