The Conservative party was hard hit when War Minister John Profumo was involved in a moral scandal that furnished the British press with headlines for weeks.

国防部大臣约翰．普罗富莫卷入了一件有伤风化的丑闻，给英国报刊一连数星期提供了头条新闻，这件事使保守党受到了沉重的打击。

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Five minutes later the adjutant returned, and with marked courtesy, bowing and ushering Prince Andrey before him, he led him across the corridor to the private room of the war minister.

过了五分钟，侍从武官走回来，他特别恭敬地弯腰鞠躬，让安德烈公爵在前面走，带领他穿过走廊进入军务倥偬的军政大臣的办公室。

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The minister gave a warning that if war broke out, it would be catastrophic.

大臣警告说战争一旦爆发，将会是灾难性的。

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The interior minister says, "The enemy has started a guerrilla war."

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But the minister of war was an expansionist, General Tojo.

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Winston Churchill was Britain's prime minister during World War Two.

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Mikhail Barclay de Tolly, his war minister, devised and implemented the strategy of drawing Napoleon deep inside Russia, away from his supply base, exhausting his army by defensive war and then attacking.

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And the story goes that after these heroic citizens and soldiers beat the odds and turned back the invaders, General Zaragoza found time to sit down and write a brief note to the war minister.

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Mr Berlusconi, who first took power in 1994, is Italy's longest serving post-war prime minister.

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