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Page 43
What English people of nearly all classes loathe from the bottom of their hearts is
the swaggering officer type , the jingle of ... So deep does this feeling go that for a
hundred years past the officers of the British army , in peace time , have always ...
What English people of nearly all classes loathe from the bottom of their hearts is
the swaggering officer type , the jingle of ... So deep does this feeling go that for a
hundred years past the officers of the British army , in peace time , have always ...
Page 78
There were not even enough revolvers to supply all the officers . After a year of
war the regular army was still short of 300 , 000 tin hats . There had even ,
previously , been a shortage of uniforms – this in one of the greatest woollen -
goods ...
There were not even enough revolvers to supply all the officers . After a year of
war the regular army was still short of 300 , 000 tin hats . There had even ,
previously , been a shortage of uniforms – this in one of the greatest woollen -
goods ...
Page 103
Obviously the snobbishness and political ignorance of people like airmen and
naval officers will be a very great difficulty . But without those airmen , destroyer
commanders , etc . etc . we could not survive for a week . The only approach to
them ...
Obviously the snobbishness and political ignorance of people like airmen and
naval officers will be a very great difficulty . But without those airmen , destroyer
commanders , etc . etc . we could not survive for a week . The only approach to
them ...
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Bibliographic information
| 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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