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no more Hoares to Paris. In the days before World War II, British diplomat Sir Samuel Hoare made rather disadvanta- geous arrangements with the French in Paris and King George V quipped famously to his foreign secretary: “[Send] No more coals to Newcastle; no more Hoares to Paris.” Sending coals to Newcastle means doing something superfluous, as Newcastle was a great coal-mining center—which adequately explains the rest of the quip. |