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Teleostomi Posted 19 years ago
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X and Y, or Z who are...

This is from Churchill's speech made at 1940/5/13 at the Lower House.

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In this crisis I hope I may be pardoned if I do not address the House at any length today. I hope that any of my friends and colleagues, or former colleagues, who are affected by the political reconstruction, will make allowance, all allowance, for any lack of ceremony with which it has been necessary to act. I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."

Does the blue part modify only "former colleagues", or that and "any of my friends and colleagues"?

(1) former colleagues
(2) any of my friends and colleagues AND former colleagues
  

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