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There they sat , at the centre of a vast empire and a world - wide financial network
, drawing interest and profits and spending them - on what ? It was fair to say that
life within the British Empire was in many ways better than life outside it .
There they sat , at the centre of a vast empire and a world - wide financial network
, drawing interest and profits and spending them - on what ? It was fair to say that
life within the British Empire was in many ways better than life outside it .
Page 62
like Clive , Nelson , Nicholson , Gordon would find no place for themselves in the
modern British Empire . By 1920 nearly every inch of the colonial empire was in
the grip of Whitehall . Well - meaning , over - civilized men , in dark suits and ...
like Clive , Nelson , Nicholson , Gordon would find no place for themselves in the
modern British Empire . By 1920 nearly every inch of the colonial empire was in
the grip of Whitehall . Well - meaning , over - civilized men , in dark suits and ...
Page 97
To a Labour government in power , three imperial policies would have been
open . One was to continue administering the Empire exactly as before , which
meant dropping all pretensions to Socialism . Another was to set the subject
peoples ...
To a Labour government in power , three imperial policies would have been
open . One was to continue administering the Empire exactly as before , which
meant dropping all pretensions to Socialism . Another was to set the subject
peoples ...
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| Title | The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius A Penguin book : Polit. science Volume 6327 of Penguin Books Penguin twentieth-century classics |
| Author | George Orwell |
| Editor | Bernard R. Crick |
| Contributor | Bernard R. Crick |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Penguin Books, 1982 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Sep 2010 |
| ISBN | 0140063277, 9780140063271 |
| Length | 123 pages |
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