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He was crammed for a scholarship to Eton but after getting there in 1917 he did
little work . He left in 1921 and joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma the
following year , serving until 1928 . Orwell returned to England in 1928 and he
spent ...
He was crammed for a scholarship to Eton but after getting there in 1917 he did
little work . He left in 1921 and joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma the
following year , serving until 1928 . Orwell returned to England in 1928 and he
spent ...
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From that time onwards it has been next door to impossible to induce young men
of spirit to take any part in imperial administration . And what was true of the
official world was true also of the commercial . The great monopoly companies ...
From that time onwards it has been next door to impossible to induce young men
of spirit to take any part in imperial administration . And what was true of the
official world was true also of the commercial . The great monopoly companies ...
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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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