The epithet Night of the Long Knives is given to July 13, 1962, when the British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan sacked the following members of his Cabinet:
This unprecedented action was mockingly named by the newspapers, after the 1934 Nazi Night of the Long Knives[1]
Jeremy Thorpe, one of Macmillan's political opponents, is quoted as saying:
| “ | greater love hath no man than this, that he should lay down his friends for his life. | ” |
This quote is adapted from John 15:13.
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