Choking back his disappointment after his own team's splendid wins against Liverpool and Aston Villa, he said: I've got to be humble and say we were beaten by a very good side.

What you need are frogs,' said the veteran.Fish them at night. There's nothing like them on big cork floats.'

In the following years, Lord Cromer fought vigorously against pan-Islamist propaganda, banning, for instance, the popular Paris-published pan-Islamic journal al'Urwa alWuthqa (The Firmest Bond).

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