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... Italians can do nothing without making a deafening noise , the Chinese are addicted to gambling . Obviously such things don't matter in themselves . Nevertheless , nothing is causeless , and even the fact that Englishmen have bad teeth ...
... Italians can do nothing without making a deafening noise , the Chinese are addicted to gambling . Obviously such things don't matter in themselves . Nevertheless , nothing is causeless , and even the fact that Englishmen have bad teeth ...
Page 44
... Italians adopted the goose - step at about the time when Italy passed definitely under German control , and , as one would expect , they do it less well than the Germans . The Vichy government , if it survives , is bound to introduce a ...
... Italians adopted the goose - step at about the time when Italy passed definitely under German control , and , as one would expect , they do it less well than the Germans . The Vichy government , if it survives , is bound to introduce a ...
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... Italian aeroplanes . Even when they had begun to grasp that Fascism was dangerous , its essentially revolutionary nature , the huge military effort it was capable of making , the sort of tactics it would use , were quite beyond their ...
... Italian aeroplanes . Even when they had begun to grasp that Fascism was dangerous , its essentially revolutionary nature , the huge military effort it was capable of making , the sort of tactics it would use , were quite beyond their ...
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