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Page 58
... present war for 1914. Even at this moment hundreds of thousands of men in England are being trained with the bayonet , a weapon entirely useless except for opening tins . It is worth noticing that the navy and , latterly , the air force ...
... present war for 1914. Even at this moment hundreds of thousands of men in England are being trained with the bayonet , a weapon entirely useless except for opening tins . It is worth noticing that the navy and , latterly , the air force ...
Page 86
... present we have nothing to appeal to except traditional patriotism , which is deeper here than elsewhere , but is not necessarily bottomless . At some point or another you have got to deal with the man who says ' I should be no worse ...
... present we have nothing to appeal to except traditional patriotism , which is deeper here than elsewhere , but is not necessarily bottomless . At some point or another you have got to deal with the man who says ' I should be no worse ...
Page 118
... present line of development , and India will be a peasant republic linked with England only by voluntary alliance . The ' semi - apes ' of whom Hitler speaks with such loathing will be flying aeroplanes and manufacturing machine - guns ...
... present line of development , and India will be a peasant republic linked with England only by voluntary alliance . The ' semi - apes ' of whom Hitler speaks with such loathing will be flying aeroplanes and manufacturing machine - guns ...
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