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... bombing plane , for instance , is equivalent in price to fifty small motor cars , or eight thousand pairs of silk stockings , or a million loaves of bread . Clearly you can't have many bombing planes without lowering the national ...
... bombing plane , for instance , is equivalent in price to fifty small motor cars , or eight thousand pairs of silk stockings , or a million loaves of bread . Clearly you can't have many bombing planes without lowering the national ...
Page 86
... bombing . It cannot but lower the general standard of living , because the essential act of war is to manufacture armaments instead of consumable goods . The working class will have to suffer terrible things . And they will suffer them ...
... bombing . It cannot but lower the general standard of living , because the essential act of war is to manufacture armaments instead of consumable goods . The working class will have to suffer terrible things . And they will suffer them ...
Page 91
... a reasonable degree of social justice . The lady in the Rolls - Royce car is more damaging to morale than a fleet of Goering's bombing planes . - PART THREE : The English Revolution I The English revolution Shopkeepers at War 91.
... a reasonable degree of social justice . The lady in the Rolls - Royce car is more damaging to morale than a fleet of Goering's bombing planes . - PART THREE : The English Revolution I The English revolution Shopkeepers at War 91.
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