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Military dictatorships exist everywhere, but there is no such thing as a naval
dictatorship. What English people of nearly all classes loathe from the bottom of
their hearts is the swaggering officer type, the jingle of spurs and the crash of
boots.
Military dictatorships exist everywhere, but there is no such thing as a naval
dictatorship. What English people of nearly all classes loathe from the bottom of
their hearts is the swaggering officer type, the jingle of spurs and the crash of
boots.
Page 51
But does this mean that the instinct of the English will always tell them to do the
right thing? Not at all, merely that it will tell them to do the same thing. In the 1931
General Election, for instance, we all did the wrong thing in perfect unison.
But does this mean that the instinct of the English will always tell them to do the
right thing? Not at all, merely that it will tell them to do the same thing. In the 1931
General Election, for instance, we all did the wrong thing in perfect unison.
Page 60
But things had not gone that distance in England. Politicians who would make
cringing speeches about 'the duty of loyalty to our conquerors' are hardly to be
found in English public life. Tossed to and fro between their incomes and their ...
But things had not gone that distance in England. Politicians who would make
cringing speeches about 'the duty of loyalty to our conquerors' are hardly to be
found in English public life. Tossed to and fro between their incomes and their ...
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| Title | The lion and the unicorn: socialism and the English genius Penguin twentieth-century classics Penguin Books |
| Author | George Orwell |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Penguin Books, 1982 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Sep 2010 |
| Length | 123 pages |
| Subjects | › › England Great Britain Political Science / Political Ideologies / Communism & Socialism Social structure Socialism Socialism in Great Britain |
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