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Britain's Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin called it "the most unsordid act of history."

From Time Magazine Archive

It is altogether unsordid; itself is its only price.

From Character by Smiles, Samuel

So with this hour of push and pelf,    Where nought unsordid seems to last, Vex not thy miserable self,    But search the fallows of the past.

From Old Familiar Faces by Watts-Dunton, Theodore